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Died. Lord Vansittart, 75, versatile, vituperative onetime (1930-38) Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, poet, playwright and polemical pamphleteer, longtime foe of German aggression; of lung congestion; in Denham, England. Vansittart established himself as a young-man-about-letters by concocting a French comedy (Les Pariahs) at 21, getting it produced successfully in Paris; as head of the British Foreign Office, attacked Naziism, got kicked upstairs (to the sinecure of chief diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Secretary) by appeasement-minded Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Vansittart admitted he was anti-German ("Germans have killed, tortured, starved, plundered...
...Tory Party, led by Lord Salisbury, Eden's own longtime guide and mentor, was against the idea almost from the beginning. Others joined in after Khrush and Bulgy made their circus tour of India and Burma, spraying gratuitous insults at Britain. Snapped that professional angry man Lord Vansittart, longtime head of Britain's Foreign Service: "May I repeat for the ninth time what I said so often in Hitler's day-those who ask to be deceived must not grumble if they are gratified." There was even talk of canceling the invitation, but cooler heads persuaded everyone...
...wisest words in the dispute were spoken by crusty old Lord Vansittart, a distant cousin but no partisan of the hero. Lawrence's part in the Arabian revolt, wrote Vansittart, "was not titanic, but it was considerable. Mr. Aldington cannot reconcile-nor did Lawrence himself-faults and gifts, purple and dust, Dichtung und Wahrheit, bravery and inaccuracy, daring and brusquerie, delicacy and cheek...
Bags & Spoons. Eric Vansittart Bowater, says one of his friends, is a "self-made man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth." Though he comes from a titled family, Sir Eric earned his knighthood for World War II service in the Air Ministry. The family has been in the paper business since 1881, but it was not until Eric, a wounded veteran, joined the firm in 1921 that the company began to expand fast. Sir Eric decided that the firm, then only a trading company with assets of $1,500.000, ought to get into manufacturing. Unable...
Against the majority's chorus rang the voice of Lord Vansittart, permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the Hitler-appeasement era, a man who cried havoc then and was now crying havoc again. In a letter to the Times of London he wrote: "The second World War was fought precisely because it was thought that we would swallow anything. And precisely the same process is being repeated before our eyes today. There are even more ominous symptoms and similarities. Whenever the Nazis were ready for another expansion, they charged their opponents with provocations . . . The Communists adopt...