Word: lothian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public opinion, which last year was unwilling to face the savage reality of war, last week was prepared to admit that it had a decisive, selfish, personal interest in what happened to the British Fleet. In its own way it had come to translate into blunt language what Lord Lothian had said indirectly from the start. And signs were accumulating that the world's greatest problem in statecraft-British and U. S. relations-was approaching a critical phase...
...Lord Lothian had already answered Key Pittman. Because it contains a clear statement of the case that is the cornerstone of U. S.-British relations, TIME here reprints the key sentences of Lord Lothian's speech to a Yale alumni luncheon fortnight...
...Versailles, played a part in drafting the Versailles Treaty which he has since criticized. As Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for India in the MacDonald Cabinet, he sat in the endless Round-Table Conferences on the Indian Constitution, visited Delhi (where he was greeted with a sign reading "Lothian, go back"), developed an admiration for Gandhi's saintliness when he was living in a mud hut next Gandhi's. As a firm believer in closer U. S.-British trade relations, he resigned from the Cabinet when Liberals split from the Government, over trade policy. As a close friend...
Before he became Ambassador, Lord Lothian freely deduced future U. S. foreign policy on this basis. He told Britishers: the U. S. will never underwrite the British and French Empires, because the U. S. is traditionally opposed to imperialism, or the political control of one people by another. The U. S. attitude is likely to be similar to Britain's after Napoleon...
...that in the period of greatest U. S. growth the seas were under democratic control. Although U. S. -British cooperation is suspect in the U. S. because it "obviously operates to the benefit of the British Commonwealth and not so obviously to the benefit of the U. S.," Lord Lothian believes that the issue would be clear when the U. S. understood what control of the sea by totalitarian powers would mean. "Do you suppose for one moment that if Nazi Germany or Communist Russia obtained control of the seas, the world would be any thing like as free...