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Where is the modern Fitzroy Maclean ready to bring peace to the
Sunday Herald, The, Apr 18, 1999 by Trevor Royle
His suspicions that Tito was a female guerrilla proved unfounded when the pair met but the Scot hailed as a model for James Bond went on to play a vital role in helping the communist leader win power in Yugoslavia. Trevor Royle looks at an unlikely meeting of minds Back in the days when all that was asked of an aspiring diplomatist was a private income of #400 a year, a good hand and fluent French, the Foreign Office was awash with Balkans experts. One reason was the deliciously intractable nature of the Eastern Question, that seemingly eternal conundrum caused by the 19th century demise of the Ottoman Empire and the accompanying rise of national movements in the Balkans.
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Another reason was the supposed romanticism of Balkans' politics. All those rugged hillmen fighting for their independence from Johnny Turk. From Byron onwards, there has been no shortage of British swashbucklers keen to navigate themselves round the intricacies of the local scene, convinced they had the solution - or at least the glimmering of one - to the aspirations of assorted Croats, Montenegrins, Bosnians and Serbs.
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