Word: vansittart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July Britain's recently retired Chief Diplomatic Adviser, Baron Vansittart of Denham, wrote: "The question of how we are to live with the Germans as neighbors will certainly involve our maintaining a state of preparedness for more than a generation to come. But, above all, it involves the re-education of the German people and the renunciation by them of militarism and the Prussian qualities which have made them such impossible neighbors in the past. This they will never do voluntarily; it will have to be imposed upon them." In Parliament last week, Socialist John James ("Jack") Lawson cried...
...Robert Vansittart descended from the Vansittart who was so elaborately wrong in his counter-resolutions to the report of the Bullion Committee in 1810? Perhaps being wrong runs in the family...
...Robert Vansittart, who retired last month as Anthony Eden's Chief Diplomatic Adviser after eight ill-starred years as Britain's potent Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is a great great great grandson of Arthur Vansittart (1691-1760), one of whose other grandsons was Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), M.P. for 26 years and at various times Special Envoy to Denmark, Secretary to the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1810 Britain-in the midst of war with Napoleon-was off the gold standard, the price of bullion was high in terms of Bank of England...
Over a fireplace in Sir Robert's country house, Denham Place, Bucks, hangs the portrait of an ancestor, Henry Vansittart, who was Governor of Bengal. That was the Vansittart who once sent his brother a live baboon, which the brother promptly presented to an organization both men belonged to, the Hell Fire Club, where the baboon was given the Eucharist at every meeting. Blasphemy had burned out of the family by the time Robert Gilbert Vansittart came along, as the conquering spirit had burned out of most Englishmen...
...Robert Vansittart, like all British diplomats of his time, was schooled to hold the Empire together...