Word: lothian
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...Chicago last week with a row of medals on his chest, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the U. S., faced the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, including bemedaled Charles Gates Dawes, who did tit for tat at the Court of St. James's. Lord Lothian in his matter-of-fact way gave what he called an honest account of what Britons "think and hope and fear" about the war. He told his U. S. audience that the British Government was not "trying to drag you into this war," but that Britain did look forward...
...this war Lord Lothian explained the real prize is sea power, the issue "freedom or tyranny." Sometime next spring he expected the crisis-when the Germans would attack with "all the ferocity and ruthlessness the Nazis have taught us to expect...
...Swing the leading "attention-getter" among news analysts and commentators in 1939. In U. S. homes great & humble millions cock respectful ears when Raymond Gram Swing comes on, five nights a week. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter is a Swing fan. So are Nicholas Murray Butler, British Ambassador Lord Lothian, Tallulah Bankhead. In England he is credited with being heard by an incredible 30.7% of the adult population whenever he comes on (fortnightly since war began...
...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...
...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...