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...plushy main dining room of the Buenos Aires Plaza Hotel, the British Chamber of Commerce sat down to its monthly luncheon. Guest of honor: Viscount Templewood, the suave old Sir Samuel Hoare of Baldwin-Chamberlain diplomacy, visiting Argentina in the cause of British commerce. Also present: half the Argentine Cabinet. As the savory was cleared away and the Viscount rose to speak, an unidentified British businessman leaped from his place and yelled: "Now you can talk to these people as they should be talked...
...well-known characters in international politics showed himself in a new and more popular light last week. The new Lord Templewood (the old Sir Samuel Hoare), long considered an appeaser and compromiser with Fascism, came back from almost five years as British Ambassador to Franco to speak his mind about totalitarianism. Either he had changed or he had been much misunderstood...
Last week, making his maiden speech in the House of Lords, the new Lord Templewood was apparently a wiser man. He called Franco Spain "practically a semioccupied country," pervaded by German influence over press and radio, hagridden by the Gestapo. His long-silent Lordship testified: "I had the Gestapo living in the next house looking over a wall watching every movement I made and constantly trying to suborn my domestic staff. . . . I saw what was more sinister-how the Gestapo would seize some man or woman in Spanish territory and take them over the frontier to death or torture...
Prim, cautious Lord Templewood-whom the late, great Lord Curzon once characterized as "descended from a long line of maiden aunts"-did not go so far as to suggest that Franco, the Falange, the Army, the Church, the big landowners, or the aristocracy might have had something to do with Spain's plight. He found the villainy of Germany corrupting not only Spain but all Europe: "Posterity will say that the worst German crime is the studied destruction of all moral values of Europe...
...better clue to Francisco Franco's political health than the scare bulletins emanating from Spanish émigré groups in Paris, London and Mexico City was a brief announcement from the British Foreign Office: Lord Templewood (Sir Samuel Hoare), Britain's ambassador to Spain, is going home. Lord Templewood, long hated as an appeaser by Laborites, leftists and liberals, has skated over the thin ice of Anglo-Spanish relations since 1940. "At that time," said the Foreign Office, "it was expected [his] mission would be of short duration. But in the ensuing years situations arose which made...