Word: inverchapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ardent and eloquent. ¶ Lord Halifax (1941-46), who also arrived with a faint aroma of appeasement clinging to his reputation, but soon became one of the most respected men in Washington. His character was an inspiring blend of force and gentleness, of practicality and high purpose. ¶Lord Inverchapel (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr) (1946-48), a professional diplomat who could play the bagpipes and would rather talk about Scottish wild. flowers than about politics. He was said to look like "a cigar-store Indian with a high polish." This could have been misleading; he was much smarter than...
...efficient Jewish army. Marcus consented. As chief planner he won the confidence of Palestine Jews by suggesting "we ought . . ." instead of "you must . . ." In April, he returned briefly to the U.S. on what he regarded as an ironic mission: to receive from the hand of British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel a decoration as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his work in World War II. Then he went back to Palestine...
British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, 66, jammed extra packages of sugar, rice and bacon into his luggage, and departed for Great Britain and retirement. The U.S. people, he declared, were "the nicest I've ever lived amongst." The man who had performed superbly under Japanese bombing during six years as ambassador to China, who had skillfully dealt with Joseph Stalin as wartime ambassador to Moscow, seemed old and tired. During his two-year U.S. tenure he had avoided the press, neglected receptions, become bored with the intricate economic problems which are the daily grist of present U.S.British relations. After...
...Lord Inverchapel, retiring Ambassador to the U.S., got a nod from the British Foreign Office, which made him official greeter for this summer's Olympic Games...
...Inverchapel told his audience that the main political problem in Britain and other Western democracies is "to reconcile liberty with control by the community of the community's material fortunes...