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Clench-jawed Lord Vansittart left his post as Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office in 1941, the better to press his belief that salvation lies in taming the Teuton. Last week he reduced his formula to twelve points, published them in the New York Times Magazine...
Next the young man encounters an orating windbag, Mr. Speakeasy, M.P., whose booming platitudes about freedom from want fail to interest the pensive soldier. He is also unmoved by the frenzied screechings of Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Rev. Hateman, the cleric, who unite in a Vansittart diatribe about German savagery and sing a duet: "The Germans are not the Herrenvolk. We are the Herrenvolk...
...years (1924-40) Léger presided behind the scenes of France's Foreign Office. He was known as "the Vansittart of the Quai d'Orsay," "Europe's greatest living diplomat." Said one awed foreign observer: "Präsidenten gehen, Aussenminister gehen, aber Alexis Leger bleibt immer da" ("Presidents go, foreign ministers go, but Alexis Leger always remains...
...little Britons in pubs and big Britons in clubs have debated whether the whole German people are to blame for Nazi Germany and World War II, or whether only evil, powerful men and their dupes are responsible. Last week, in a House of Lords debate, smooth, grim Lord Vansittart restated his familiar view that all Germans are accomplices and that, whatever happens to them as individuals, Germany should be destroyed "utterly and forever as a military power." Winston Churchill's grey advocate and Lord Chancellor, Viscount Simon, promptly made it clear that on this issue the British Government...
Married. Cynthia Vansittart, daughter of Robert Gilbert, Baron Vansittart; and Frederick C. Whitman, son of the late Davis Cup Tennist Malcolm D. Whitman; in San Francisco...