Word: lothian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon a crow perched over the State Department entrance reserved for diplomats. As Great Britain's Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian, strode in, the crow cawed. A little crowd of onlookers laughed. Up the steps, through the door walked tall, tanned Hans Thomsen of Germany. Caw, caw, went the crow. Henrik de Kauffmann followed later. Caw, caw. Embattled Norway's Mr. de Morgenstierne, then Sweden's Wollmar Filip Bostrom came and went. Caw, caw. The superstitious crowd no longer laughed...
Upon learning that the Royal Air Force had bombed Sylt, the Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the U. S., exclaimed: "Fine work. We've been doing too much talking. Now we're socking them in the nose...
Snapped Lord Lothian, British Ambassador: "Complete eyewash." Said an authoritative source in London: "You can be certain it won't happen again." At first denied by Lieut. Colonel R. Swire, chief censor in Hamilton, who declared, "utter nonsense . . . no armed men were in the vicinity," the story was later admitted in part. An official statement pointed out that a force majeure had to be created to enable Captain Lorber to yield his mail without any question of having failed in his duty as a U. S. mail carrier. This "show of force" was a boatload of armed special constables...
Early this week the U. S. State Department made public an aide-mémoire to British Ambassador Lord Lothian on detention of U. S. ships in the Mediterranean. The U. S. point: Italian ships are detained an average of only four days at Gibraltar, U. S. ships an average of 12.4 days. The State Department's demand: "This government must expect that the British Government will at least take suitable and prompt measures to bring about an immediate correction of this situation...
...much as she needs her powerful Navy. As a Nazi critic once remarked, the "weakness" of Britain is that she can no longer survive without the moral approbation of the world. Today, in such widely separated capitals as Ankara, Buenos Aires, Rome and Stockholm, other British envoys besides Lothian are working just as hard to convince other nations that Britain's cause is their cause, that Britain's defeat would be their tragedy...