Word: lothian
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...Ronald Lindsay (1930-39). Six ft. 3 in. tall, he resembled a contented moose. When he held a huge garden party for his visiting King in 1939, he coolly consoled those he could not invite: "It's like heaven. Some are taken and some are left."¶Lord Lothian (1939-40), a Scottish Liberal and Christian Scientist who once lived in a hut next to Gandhi, loved speech-making and Southern fried chicken. Some said he had been in favor of appeasing Hitler, but his wartime patriotism was ardent and eloquent. ¶ Lord Halifax (1941-46), who also arrived...
...this, Churchill's diplomacy is a superb combination of tact and inexorable firmness. While never forgetful of the President's constitutional limitations, Churchill also never forgets that such limitations might well prove fatal. "The President should bear . . . very clearly in mind," he instructs British Ambassador Lord-Lothian, that the U.S. cannot afford "any complacent assumption . . . that they will pick up the debris of the British Empire . . ." His own remarks to Roosevelt are sometimes genially humble ("I am so grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your...
...Britain he has enlisted such figures as the Duke of Norfolk, Britain's ranking Roman Catholic layman, the young, lovely, devoutly Catholic Marchioness of Lothian; Novelist Evelyn Waugh; Lord Lovat of Commando fame; and many others. From the U.S., Cardinal Spellman sent Elwes an enthusiastic letter and his personal check for $500. In London last fortnight, Elwes saw former Belgian Ambassador Hugh Gibson, who may head the U.S. drive for funds...
...doling out reprimands, advice and praise to the Post's sentimental readers for more than nine years. Mostly because she is not averse to calling a stinker a stinker, her "Mary Haworth's Mail" is one of the most widely read columns in the Washington area. Lord Lothian, late British ambassador to the U.S., once told Post Publisher Eugene Meyer that after the front-page news and the editorials he always turned to Mary Haworth...
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...