Lord Lothian
Where each worldview places it
One of the Round Table/RIIA "high command" and an "arch appeaser" who later switched to calling for war[1].
- Aliases
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- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- 1935-01 (meets Hitler)
- 1938
- died December 1940[2]
- Places
- Washington[2]
- Key events
- 1935-01: proposes a British-German-United States pact to Hitler[2]
- 1938: condemns the Czechs for not making concessions to Germany[2]
- then, with Lord Astor, makes "speeches saying exactly the opposite", calling for war and alliance with Russia, and becomes British ambassador in Washington until his death[2]