Word: lothian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Transport's Beginning. Three years ago in the embassy at Washington the late Marquess of Lothian, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, was asked by a reporter how bombers bought under the cash-&-carry plan could be transported to sorely pressed England. Lord Lothian whispered: "I have been told they might be flown over...
Seaplanes were then flying the oceans, but the North Atlantic was a route to be flown regularly only by veteran pilots. It was deserted by aircraft in the winter. Lord Lothian's whisper was more than the cautious enunciation of a secret. It indicated an awareness of how Billy-Mitchellesque most people would have considered Britain's plan: the regular delivery of military aircraft across the Atlantic, come hell or foul weather, by airmen whose experience was far below the level of transatlantic airline...
...since Lord Lothian's death have U.S. citizens heard such plain talk from a British official as they heard last week. The plain talker was big (196 Ib.) Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. Homeward bound after a 30,000-mile tour of the British Empire, fresh from ten weeks with the War Cabinet in London, the Prime Minister stepped out of the Clipper to be greeted by Australian Minister Richard Casey. Then, with no kowtowing to supposed U.S. sensibilities, he let fly with a statement on war aims, flew in a camouflaged bomber to Ottawa, returned...
...late Lord Lothian openly appealed for cruisers and more destroyers early in the year, and 10 Downing Street since then has become increasingly frank in appeals for a share of the American Navy. Now the same front groups which paved the way for F.D.R.'s earlier destroyer deal and the Lend-Lease Bill are calling for American ships manned by U. S. officers and seaman. The "short-of-war" line has been pushed by proponents of various convoy schemes to the Japanese definition: "War is when you declare...
...TIME, Dec. 23, you print, one after the other, speeches by Hitler and Lord Lothian. Your presentation of these speeches leads me to feel that the comments on it that come immediately to my finger tips may be of some interest...