Word: lothian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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England thus finds itself in a dilemma which is clearly expressed by the two schools of thought that have been seeking to gain Mr. Baldwin's ear. One group headed by Viscount Cecil insists upon a stronger League as the only means of peace, while others under Lord Lothian see safety in a League that doesn't force anybody...
...President called an old friend whom he had known as Lloyd George's political secretary at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919-Rt. Hon. Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle, Baron Ker, 11th Marquess of Lothian...
Aged 50, the 11th Marquess of Lothian is supposed to be "the best brain at the India Office since Lord Birkenhead." Using this brain, Lord Lothian produced what seemed to many Britons a brilliant, simple and eminently workable plan for enfranchising more Indian women. At present 21 times more males than females vote in India. Under the Lothian Plan, persuasively expounded to the Conference by Lord Lothian last week, the wife or widow of every voting Indian male would be automatically enfranchised. What could be simpler or fairer than that...
...Indian babel which greeted Lord Lothian came this Gibraltarlike objection...
...Lord Lothian's best brain had assumed that each polygamous husband would be able to pick one of his wives for enfranchisement. Indians at the Conference held that such an assumption could only be made by a man who knows nothing about managing a harem. The 11th Marquess of Lothian, they observed, is a bachelor...