Simon Heffer

R.B. Haldane: a great public servant, much maligned

By establishing the BEF, Haldane arguably saved Britain in the first world war, but was still falsely accused of colluding with Germany

Portrait of Haldane, painted a few months before his death in August 1928 by Philip de László. Alamy

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