Word: scots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent League of Nations partisan, went on teaching Greek at Oxford. The new Ambassador-designate, who will go to Washington early next year, is Sir Ronald Lindsay. 52, brawny six-foot Scot, onetime Ambassador to Germany and to Turkey. No stranger to the U. S. is Ambassador Ronald. A career diplomat, holder until last week of the post to which Sir Robert Vansittart has been appointed, he has served at the Washington Embassy twice: from 1905 to 1907, as Second Secretary under...
Conscious of his strong position, Scot MacDonald had delayed until last week his report to Parliament on the Hoover conversations. Taking his time and keeping most of his secrets, the Prime Minister told the House in substance only what he had already told U. S. and Canadian reporters, namely that: 1) The forthcoming Naval Disarmament Pact will be based upon the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; 2) The tentative Anglo-U. S. naval understanding between himself and President Hoover is only a groundwork on which the Naval Pact proper will be built at the Five-Power Conference scheduled to meet...
Subsequent sharp querying of Scot MacDonald-especially by Welshman Lloyd George-confirmed two important if negative facts. The Prime Minister's answers revealed for the first time that he did not discuss the Anglo-U. S. War debt situation with Mr. Hoover, and that he has not given the President any assurance that in wartime the British navy will respect the right of U. S. merchantmen to freedom of the seas. Since there has been general uneasiness in Britain on the latter point, Mr. MacDonald's straightforward answer cleared the air, enhanced his popularity, banished suspicion that...
Later in the week at a meeting of the National Labor Club, Scot MacDonald told how he had been "struck by President Hoover's quiet forcefulness. . . . His powerful way of furthering an argument made me almost smile in his face and exclaim to him out of the happiness of my soul: 'Oh, you dear old Quaker...
...Never put off until tomorrow what you can just as well put off until next week"- such was the Irish motto cheerfully followed by Scot James Ramsay MacDonald on his return last week to Britain...