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...almost a year the 61-year-old Sir Ronald has wanted to retire. Early this week the British Government granted his wish, appointed as a successor an equally high-powered statesman, the 57-year-old Marquess of Lothian. He will take his Washington post soon after the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the U. S. in June...
...Lord Lothian's assignments to foreign countries have been rare; his early duties were confined largely to remote spots of the British Empire in Africa and Asia. He is better remembered in the U. S. as Philip Henry Kerr, secretary from 1916 to 1921 to David Lloyd George, Wartime British Prime Minister. He was raised to the peerage in 1930. A Liberal peer, in later years he has become more a Conservative, has warmly supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy and is usually counted among the members of Lady Astor's "Cliveden...
...meet until summer, but at their first meetings the logical thing will be for the Gandhi majority to vote down the minority cabinet of the Governor. This will lead, as "The only real alternative," to "violence and revolution" and to its "repression," according last week to the Marquess of Lothian, onetime Undersecretary of State for India and prominent in drafting the new Constitution...
...rose Viscount Cecil, No. 1 exponent in Britain of the League of Nations and stager of the 11,000,000-vote Peace Ballot (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). "This is a perfectly impossible combination of idealism!" Idealist Cecil warmly told Idealist Lothian. "The feeling in America against such a proposal would be overwhelming...