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Here & there the rich harmony of approval for the Wilsonian idealism of the Points ran into discord. In the London Times, Britain's retired Diplomatic Adviser, Baron Vansittart of Denham, snorted: "His Majesty's Government did well to promise the restoration of France. But not this [Vichy] France. . . . It is useless to disguise the strength of British feeling against it. This France, His Majesty's Government cannot restore and it would be better for them to say so forthright and forthwith...
...July Britain's recently retired Chief Diplomatic Adviser, Baron Vansittart of Denham, wrote: "The question of how we are to live with the Germans as neighbors will certainly involve our maintaining a state of preparedness for more than a generation to come. But, above all, it involves the re-education of the German people and the renunciation by them of militarism and the Prussian qualities which have made them such impossible neighbors in the past. This they will never do voluntarily; it will have to be imposed upon them." In Parliament last week, Socialist John James ("Jack") Lawson cried...
...Robert Vansittart descended from the Vansittart who was so elaborately wrong in his counter-resolutions to the report of the Bullion Committee in 1810? Perhaps being wrong runs in the family...
...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...
...Robert Vansittart, like all British diplomats of his time, was schooled to hold the Empire together...