Word: vansittart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry figure in the House of Commons as his Sanctionist policy crashed and he did not resign. Nowadays there is an almost frightened apology in young "Tony" Eden's eyes as he goes about with the Foreign Office's astute Permanent Undersecretary Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, coauthor with Sir Samuel of the realistic policy which has proved "right...
...hitherto unheard of office of "Minister for League of Nations Affairs," sat back contentedly to let Ethiopia and Italy be dealt with in practical fashion by Sir Samuel Hoare, then Foreign Secretary, and by the bril liant professionals of the Foreign Office whose permanent head is Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart. In a few short weeks, by cooperating closely with the then French Premier, thick-lipped and unprepossessing Pierre Laval, they had produced "The Deal" (TIME, Dec. 16) ready for signing in Paris...
Something Better? The "something better" was being urged upon harassed, obfuscated Squire Baldwin by the Permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, tenacious Sir Robert Vansittart, who nearly enabled his chief, Sir Samuel Hoare, to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia by the Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Sir Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian...
...anything, the undertaking of such a peace obligation was last week to most Britons a great deal more repugnant than talented Sir Robert Vansittart's earlier scheme for making peace between Italy and Ethiopia, but the thinking machines of Britons were definitely whirring, the Honor of England was engaged, and Adolf Hitler was howling his head...
...sardonic grin last week on the face of Benito Mussolini, who has mobilized in Europe 1,000,000 soldiers, not to mention his 300,000 in Africa. In London II Duce's envoy, Dino Grandi, kept saying: "Now is the time to settle everything" - i.e., to make a Vansittart Ethiopian peace and a Vansittart German peace. The august London Times raised its deep voice in harmony with this attitude...