Word: lothian
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Late last summer Lord Lothian arrived in Washington. Last week even professional Anglophobes were compelled to admit that if the U. S. had not understood the British case-and its meaning to the U. S. -it had not been because Lord Lothian had fallen down as an Ambassador. Pacing his littered study in the Embassy he was saying (between transatlantic phone calls and visits to the State Department) what he had said when he arrived: that the prize for which Hitler was contending was command of the sea. The only difference was that he now said it more forcefully...
...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...