The Diplomat (novel)

A reviewer in The Sydney Morning Herald was in two minds about the book: "James Aldridge's excellent reporting, his knowledge of his subject, his ambitious aim, and his lively treatment of adventures with the Kurds, help to compensate for the stiff characters and the great length of the novel."^[2]

In The Bulletin the reviewer was slightly more positive: "That so many themes with such popular and contemporary appeal should be so well worked together argues a shrewd mind, and probably the politics have been shrewdly adjusted to mirror a contemporary and popular dream rather than the realities of the international situation."^[3]

After the novel's initial publication in the UK by The Bodley Head, the novel was reprinted as follows:

• Little, Brown, USA, 1950^[4]

The novel was also translated into German, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Hebrew and Bulgarian in 1951, Dutch, Slovak, Russian, and Flemish in 1952, Polish and Chinese in 1953, Albanian in 1965, Slovak in 1978, Estonian in 1979, Hungarian and Azerbaijani in 1981, Kurdish in 1984, and Latvian in 1988.^[5]