Word: lothian
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...first place, the label-conscious U. S. had at first given the late Lord Lothian exactly the same tags; but he had turned out first-rate. Besides, Lord Halifax had been through everything-all the way from the practice of pious imperialism as India's Viceroy, to its desperate defense as Britain's wartime Foreign Secretary. Having bossed ambassadors, he would know how to be one. It was felt that those Puritan Americans would like Halifax's deeply religious nature. This devotion, which bred the conviction in him that Adolf Hitler is a creature of the devil...
...sign of defeat marked Lord Lothian's manner, just as, a few days before his death, he gave no sign of his illness. As a Christian Scientist he believed that his real life lay in the world of thought, and that he could go through unpleasant material experiences by not making a reality of them. Last week those who heard his Baltimore speech, with its description of Londoners under fire-stubbornly denying the ultimate reality of the bombings-felt that it applied as keenly to his own denial of his last illness...
...philosophy the speeches were a world apart, but their likeness was striking. Neither was polished. Hitler used too many theses and thoses and Lord Lothian too many buts. Each tacitly admitted grave military weaknesses on his own side. Both agreed that the war is not war but a revolution; that it must be fought to the bitter end; that Germany is fighting not only Great Britain, but the world of capitalism and free enterprise as represented by Britain...
...clarify the overwhelming problem facing the U. S. One was a speech by Adolf Hitler to the workers and women of Germany, delivered beneath shiny new cannon in the Rhein-metall-Borsig munitions works. The other was dictated by the British Ambassador to the U. S., the Marquess of Lothian, from his deathbed, and was read by Embassy Counselor Nevile Butler to the convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Baltimore...
...Lord Lothian did not attempt to argue that the U. S. should altruistically go to Britain's aid. His argument was simply that Hitler is a threat to the U. S. and that U. S. self-interest should dictate aid to Britain. Twice repeating that the decision was up to the U. S., he practically said that on the U. S. decision depends the fate of Britain, the outcome of the war, probably the future of the U. S. and all democracy...