Word: vansittart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With London's airport fogbound last week British Foreign Secretary "Flying Sam" Hoare left for Paris by train & boat instead of plane. Ninety minutes after his arrival Sir Samuel was closeted with Premier Pierre Laval and the permanent experts who make British and French foreign policy, Sir Robert Vansittart and M. Alexis Leger, plus their sub-experts on Ethiopia, Mr. Maurice Peterson and Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. The tension and excitement were terrific. Upon the table lay in draft form on crisp sheets "The Deal...
Engaged. Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, permanent undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, likely candidate for Ambassador to the U. S. some day (he prepared all for Ramsay MacDonald's U. S. visit), widower son-in-law of General William Christian Heppenheimer of Jersey City; and Lady Barclay, widow of Sir Colville Barclay, onetime British Minister at Budapest...