Word: lothian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters who had been invited to the garden party also received bids for their wives, just like other people. At one stroke the Ambassador had undone half the damage done by his U. S.-born wife, and set a standard for press relations which his successor, brilliant, erratic Lord Lothian, who used to be Prime Minister Lloyd George's Private Secretary Philip Henry Kerr, will have to live up to when he comes to take over the Embassy this summer...
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...plan won its first battle when I' received an excellent press, ranging from Dorothy Thompson's eulogy to Walter Winchell's laconic, "Swelli" Lord Lothian, who will soon take over Britain's Washington embassy, favors the plan, and the Roosevelt family has bee bombarded with copies of "Union Now" into line...
...almost a year the 61-year-old Sir Ronald has wanted to retire. Early this week the British Government granted his wish, appointed as a successor an equally high-powered statesman, the 57-year-old Marquess of Lothian. He will take his Washington post soon after the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the U. S. in June...
...Lord Lothian's assignments to foreign countries have been rare; his early duties were confined largely to remote spots of the British Empire in Africa and Asia. He is better remembered in the U. S. as Philip Henry Kerr, secretary from 1916 to 1921 to David Lloyd George, Wartime British Prime Minister. He was raised to the peerage in 1930. A Liberal peer, in later years he has become more a Conservative, has warmly supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy and is usually counted among the members of Lady Astor's "Cliveden...