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...accept the ambassadorship to Britain." "You take my breath away. I'll have to think about it." "What is your immediate reaction, Douglas?" "My immediate response is favorable. I'd like four days to think about it." On the fourth day Lew accepted...
From the first, Lew Douglas got along with everyone, from Communist Arthur Horner to Imperialist Winston Churchill, from the King & Queen to a 66-year-old miner's wife, who bussed him after his visit to a Yorkshire coal mine. At parties and receptions at Prince's Gate, he had the happy faculty of greeting each guest as though the affair had been a complete flop until the latest arrival. British Laborites were frankly delighted to have a man who was in tune with Washington economic thinking and could speak with authority for the official...
...rode close herd on the Marshall Plan from the start. After the 16-nation conferees began their meetings in Paris last July, Lew Douglas was more often in France than in London, digging for facts, explaining Europe's needs to visiting Congressmen, always staying tactfully in the background at a time when the U.S. was officially not intervening. When the conferees had finished, he came back to the U.S. with Will Clayton to help screen Europe's requests and draft legislation for interim and long-range aid. He wrote some of the technical and financial clauses himself, flew...
...rich man. His grandfather's fortune has already been dispersed; his father's is locked up in Canada, where Rawhide Jim retired in an anti-New Deal huff in 1939. With only $53,570 a year in pay and allowances to run the London Embassy, Lew is forced to dig deep into his own savings...
...Lew Douglas' spirits are up. Though his Arizona tan is gone and he is beginning to look a little drawn, his sinus trouble has not bothered him in London's unusually dry, bright weather. His stomach (he once had "most of the insides cut out" as a result of the Argonne gassing) is well enough so that he can sneak an occasional forbidden Martini or cigarette...