He says Cradock's " cloven hoof" was not difficult to spot on those " smoking gun" telegrams uncovered shortly before the handover.

他说，在移交前不久发现的那些“确凿证据”电报中，不难发现克拉多克的“偶蹄”。

But he reserves particular contempt for Sir Percy Cradock, a British diplomat who had retired by the time Lord Patten took up his post in 1992.

但他对珀西克拉多克爵士特别蔑视，这位英国外交官在 1992 年彭定康勋爵上任时已经退休。

I knew that I should find in Jervase Cradock something of the blood of the " Little People, " and I found later that he had more than once encountered his kinsmen in lonely places in that lonely land.

我知道我应该在杰维斯·克拉多克身上找到一些“小人物”的血统，后来我发现他不止一次在那片荒凉的土地上的荒凉地方遇到过他的同胞。