1.   Anthony Edne, the foreign secretary, was more cautious.

2.   As David Carlton stresses, Eden was not the most unequivocal foreign secretary.

3.   During his two-week visit to Britain he is due to meet the foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd.

4.   It was Gerald Kaufman, shadow foreign secretary, who did that for him, in a speech of vast sweeping grasp.

5.   The foreign secretary ran the gauntlet of demonstrators.

6.   The foreign secretary is reported as saying that force will have to be used if diplomacy fails.

7.   The foreign secretaries of the two countries did not deal with the political issues in the Kashmir crisis but focused on military confidence-building measures.

8.   The delegations were headed by Chinese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Xu Dunxin and the Indian foreign secretary Muchkund Dubey.