Gore-Booth joined the British Foreign Service in 1933 , serving in the Foreign Office in London from 1933 – 36 , and then was stationed in Vienna , 1936 – 37 , Tokyo , 1938 – 42 , and Washington , 1942 – 45 , where he attended the Hot Springs Food Conference in 1943 . He returned to the Foreign Office in London , 1945 – 49 , attending the UNRRA Conference , 1943 , the Chicago Civil Aviation Conference , 1944 , the San Francisco Conference , 1945 , and the UN Assembly , January and October 1946 ( as Secretary of the UK Delegation ) , and in 1947 as the British Representative , Group of Four Drafting Convention setting up the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . He served as Head of the UN Economic and Social and Refugees Departments , 1947 – 48 ; Head of European Recovery Department , Foreign Office , 1948 – 49 ; Director of British Information Services in United States , 1949 – 53 ; Ambassador to Burma , 1953 – 56 ; Deputy Under-Secretary ( Economic Affairs ) , Foreign Office , 1956 – 60 ; British High Commissioner in India , 1960 – 65 ; Permanent Under-Secretary of State , Foreign Office , 1965 – 69 ; and Head of HM Diplomatic Service , 1968 – 69
San Francisco Conference
United Nations Conference on International Organization
Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth