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[CUBA] Sir Iain Johnstone Sutherland (1925-1986) British diplomat

[CUBA] Sir Iain Johnstone Sutherland (1925-1986) British diplomat and Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1982 and 1985. Sutherland served with the Royal Artillery from 1944_47, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1950. Initially training in Russian, he was posted to Belgrade in 1956, became Head of Chancery in Havana, Cuba in 1959 and was posted to Washington in 1962 immediately after the Cuban Missile Crisis He was appointed Consul-general in Jakarta in 1967 and became head of the Foreign Office's South Asia department from 1969 to 1973 before being appointed as Minister in Moscow in 1974. After a sabbatical and fellowship in International Affairs at Harvard University, Sutherland was appointed British Ambassador to Greece in 1978 until 1982. Sutherland's tenure in Moscow from 1982-85 was overshadowed by the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan and the expulsion of Soviet Spies from the United Kingdom at a time of increased tension often called the Second Cold War. Sutherland retired from his post in 1985. Offered here is a lengthy TLS, British Embassy, Havana [Cuba], May 24, 1961, 1p, approx. 8-1/2 x 14 in. To Dr. Frederick Solomon (1899-1980) Rabbi artist born in Berlin, Germany. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he fled Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. Johns Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954, Solomon left England to take up a position as rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. VG.

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