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Word: lothian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain that Britain is systematically and subtly poisoning U. S. minds, hopes to get the U. S. into this war in jig-time. Director of this campaign, says he, is Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser of the Foreign Office; among its chief agents are Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington. Their U. S. victims to date: President Roosevelt, Ambassadors Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt, Paul McNutt, the U. S. press, the House of Morgan, the Foreign Policy Association, such educators as Harvard's James Conant and Yale's Charles Seymour. For censorship and propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sargent's Bulletins | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...President Roosevelt] is beginning to loathe Lothian." Of Clarence Streit's plan for "Union Now," which Sargent charges is a British scheme for ruling the world, he says: "The unification of the British Empire goes on, led by the great band of deluded peace-loving Americans, prayerfully chanting: 'Lead Kindly Streit Amid Encircling Gloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sargent's Bulletins | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...plump, spectacled Englishman, whose lineage stretches back to those nobles, ceremoniously gave the Magna Charta (for the duration of World War II) into the keeping of a slight, balding U. S. poet. Said Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the United States, to Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Curious Passage | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...were six Justices of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Hughes warmly shook the hand of Librarian MacLeish, the hand of Britain's Ambassador. It had been a good day's work for Anglo-American relations. It had been a good day's work for shrewd Lord Lothian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Curious Passage | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...contraband. Navicerts will be signed by or for His Majesty's Ambassador in the shipper's country and will facilitate (but not guarantee) passage of the shipment through control ports. With what was intended as exquisite British tact, the British Ambassador to the U. S., Lord Lothian, observed that navicerts were "due to the perspicacity" of Robert P. Skinner, U. S. Consul General at London during World War I, and were found most useful on that occasion. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Full Throttle | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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