Word: lothian
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...amicable Pearson nor the pugnacious Allen has much of a voice, they have made their new show as lively as their news copy, have persuaded many a bigwig to appear with them on the air. Among their famous foils to date: William S. Knudsen, Mrs. Roosevelt, Robert Jackson, Lord Lothian, and last week famed French Commentator Pertinax (Andre Géraud), who described the reasons behind the collapse of France in his first public pronouncement since he arrived in the U. S. in July...
...that in the period of greatest U. S. growth the seas were under democratic control. Although U. S. -British cooperation is suspect in the U. S. because it "obviously operates to the benefit of the British Commonwealth and not so obviously to the benefit of the U. S.," Lord Lothian believes that the issue would be clear when the U. S. understood what control of the sea by totalitarian powers would mean. "Do you suppose for one moment that if Nazi Germany or Communist Russia obtained control of the seas, the world would be any thing like as free...
Climax. When he arrived in Washington, Lord Lothian threw open the diplomatic windows, beat the dust out of some old customs, hung some diplomatic taboos out on the line in plain sight of the neighbors. He held a press conference after his first visit to the White House as Ambassador, talked freely with reporters, broadened the circle of Embassy guests from the traditional group of highly placed Government officials who are also social, made contacts with New Dealers as well as with old Rhodes Scholars. Except for a little sniping, he has not been criticized as a propagandist, has been...
Washington is still a city of strain for any Ambassador, no matter how great his personal success, and last week Lord Lothian was feeling the strain. As knowledge of the extent of the French collapse swept over the diplomatic colony, feeling was summed up in a phrase: "Now there is only one Ally." As Lord Lothian drove to the State Department he passed the Czech Legation, where sad-looking Minister Vladimir Hurban still lives. Next door to it the old Austrian Legation was gone, its Minister now a Georgetown University professor and his wife the local representative of a dress...
...this city of strain Lord Lothian last week moved less like the last of the Ambassadors, presenting his country's desperate case, than like the spokesman of a cause that will never be homeless as long as the English tongue survives...