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...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...
Marked symptoms of Old School Stuffiness in the service have recently begot the quip that "if the Foreign Office says so, you can be sure it's wrong." Last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden joined the British Army in publicly admitting that criteria built around The Old School Tie are so narrow as to keep out many of the best men for 20th-century jobs. To an applauding House of Commons he announced that hereafter posts in a combined Foreign Office-diplomatic-consular service* would be available to all on the basis of ability. Presumably salaries will be raised...
...Britain the President's promise of aid was a hit in another sense, brought a great surge of relief throughout the British Commonwealth, plus a small eddy of wishes that he had gone even farther. By no accident two days later Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden came out with a statement of the British Government's war aims. A definition of the kind of peace Britain wants would be a primary condition of U.S. collaboration...
...definition, Eden's talk was a little too general for dictionary use, laid its chief emphasis on international "social security," economic cooperation between nations, without specifying the form it would take. As to Germany's place in Britain's Free Europe, there was more than an echo of Versailles. "We must never forget that Germany is the worst master Europe has yet known. Five times in the last century she has violated the peace. She must never be in a position to play that role again...
French public opinion concerning the Vichy-Nazi collaboration remained hidden by censorship. In the House of Commons last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden appealed to the French people over the heads of Vichy, gave them the somewhat belated warning that if Vichy assisted in Germany's war, Britain-would feel free to attack the Unoccupied as well as the Occupied Zone. But it seemed likely that Frenchmen in general would have been disgusted, if not downright nauseated, by any large appeal, British or French...