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...American Chamber of Commerce had staged this year-400 British and U.S. admirals, generals, politicians and businessmen present, another 150 turned away. During the main course of veal roast, potatoes and asparagus he leaned over, made a suggestion to the luncheon speaker, British Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Since there were so many Americans present, Mr. Phillips whispered, it might be a good thing if the speaker said a few words about the U.S. and Japan...
...Japan Was Provoked." Minister Lyttelton nodded approvingly. When he got up to make his speech extolling U.S.-British cooperation, he read from his Cabinet-approved little slips of blue paper until he came to an incidental mention of the word "Japan." Then he added extemporaneously: "Japan was provoked into attacking the Americans at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty on history ever to say that America was forced into the war. Everyone knows where American sympathies were. It is incorrect to say that America was ever truly neutral even before America came into...
...when Minister Lyttelton returned to his spacious, robin's-egg-blue office on the third floor of the Ministry of Production, he found his assistants milling around in consternation. The interpolated words, cabled to the U.S., had practically exploded in Washington. The shock was all the greater because numerous British experts in both the U.S. and Britain had slaved to gather material to make the speech a convincing show of U.S.-British good will, with accent on reverse Lend-Lease. Several versions of the speech were cabled back and forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly...
...Dealing Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois uprose to demand that Winston Churchill fire Lyttelton immediately. Next day British Ambassador Halifax called at the State Department to offer the official apologies of his Government, and Minister Lyttelton spoke his personal apologies in the House of Commons. Manfully refusing to claim that he had been misreported, he said: "Any misunderstanding is entirely my own fault. . . . The fault was one of expression and not of intention...
Tongue Trouble. Able Oliver Lyttelton, a man of great know-how with facts, had again got himself in trouble because of words. A grandnephew of William Gladstone, son of a Cabinet Minister, he was born to the salons of British power. Tall, heavy-mustached, with a penchant for double-breasted waistcoats, he has a personal charm that smooths all paths for him. His business abilities were established beyond cavil by his spectacular rise in the metals industry, wherein he first became manager of the giant British Metal Corp. and then fathered a world tin cartel...