Word: vansittart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these names trying to guess who was to succeed Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassador to Washington. Last week came abrupt word from London that neither Oswald, Robert or Gilbert, but Ronald is It. Sir Oswald Mosley, famed Socialist baronet, remained Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent League of Nations partisan, went on teaching Greek at Oxford. The new Ambassador-designate, who will go to Washington...
...Presently Mr. Hoover shook the hand of British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard and of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, poet and Principal Private Secretary to James Ramsay MacDonald (and to Prime Minister Baldwin before him). Poet-Secretary Vansittart had just come to pay respects, anticipating his chief's proposed visit next month...
Married. Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, 63, onetime (1913-14) Lord Mayor of London, now Member of Parliament for the city of London, and Mrs. Coysgarn Sim; in London. His first wife died last year...