Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1937, Page 29

Lindsay Is Britain’s Ace For Job as Envoy to and Cementing Ties With U. S., This Peer Is Held Ablest. SIR RONALD LINDSAY. By BLAIR BOLLES. HE Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay, P. C, G. C, M. G,, K. C. B, C. V. O, fifth son - the 26th Earl of Crawford, a ruddy Scotsman who knows the name of his Norman ancestor on the fleld of Hastings in 1066, owes to a labor government the greatest triumph of his diplomatic career—his appointment as His Majesty’s Ambassador to Wash- ington. Ronald, who resembles the British Empire fitted with trousers, has been charged with an Olympian snootiness. But other diplomats in the Capital attribute this accusation to misunderstanding and explain that Bir Ronald Lindsay is fundamentally a shy man whose bashfulness is em- phasized by a slight deafness which | often causes him to close his eyes| during important conferences, the better to hear. ‘The British Ambassador is just re- turning from London, where the | Chamberlain Foreign Office is suffer- ing diplomatic jitters, For as the 8pectator, of London, recently pointed | out: A “That no (British) government at | any time since 1918 has been faced | with a situation more delicate, more dangerous and more baffling and per- plexing is a plain and elementary Left With Joy in Heart. 8ir Ronald left Washington three weeks ago with joy in his soul because of the Chicago speech of President Roosevelt dedicating the United States $0 & strong stand in the face of cur- fent belligerency in Europe and in | the Orient. One of his chief diplo- matic purposes in recent years has been to inspire the United States-Brit- ish active rapprochement so dear to Downing Street. On account of this great interest on the part of London in our State De- partment activity, Sir Ronald is con- sidered the very best person connected with the British Foreign Office for his present post. He has been married twice and both wives were Americans. The first was Martha Cameron, daughter of ex- Senator Donald J. Cameron, long a Pennsylvania political potentate. She died in 1918, nine years after the wed- ding. He married again in 1924, this time Elizabeth Sherman, daughter of the wealthy Colgate Hoyt of New York, & schoolgir]l friend of Mrs. Roosevelt. ‘Was Counsellor in 1905. 8ir Ronald was Second Secretary of the British Embassy here from 1905 to 1907. He was Counsellor of the Embassy here from 1919 to 1920. And in November, 1929, the Labor govern- ment headed by Ramsey MacDonald plucked him from the foreign office, where he was permanent Undersecre- tary—the highest career diplomatic t =available to Britons—and sent to Washington. ] He arrived in May of the following year and spent his first few months at the Mayflower Hotel while the last touches were put on the extraordinary new red brick Embassy on Massachu- setts avenue. His appointment was regarded as a “compliment by Social- ism (MacDonald) to the old nobility.” It was regarded also as an insurance of amicability between the United Btates and Great Britain, but for a while & slight tempest raged over Sir Ronald’s Insistence upon taking ad- vantage of his diplomatic prerogative ©f importing all the liquor he wanted 8% & time when prohibition still was part of the American code. H Protest Is Ignored. Bamuel B. Woods, retired Mayor of Charlottesville, Va., wrote His Maj- esty’s Ambassador in vigorous protest to no avail. In this, Sir Ronald failed to follow the precedent set by his pre- decessor, Sir Esme Howard, who had heeded the warning of another Vir- ginian, James T. Catter of Lynchburg, #gainst making an oasis of the British Embassy. 3 lawif To drink or not #o drink, of course, Wes s triviality. Bir Ronald’s chief fmignment since he arrived in the United States has been to arrange a #ettlement of the war debt. And the debt problem early in 1933, when President Hoover was packing his frunks and President-elect Roosevelt Wwas wailing to move into the White Mouse, brought Sir Ronald his most smbearrassing American moment. At such & time, when the course of Internal American politics was un- oertain, the Ambassador received debt Cueries from his government which he found himself unable to answer. Bo he took his problem to the Oapitol and the late Senator Joseph T. Rob- inson, after first getting permission for such an unusual step from the Btate Department. Senator Robinson sscorted him to the floor of the Sen- Bte. Benator Arthur Robinson, Re- publican, of Indiana, irked by the of Great Britain’s representa- tive in a United States congressional {ehamber, condemned the action loudly iand threatened to make #n incident ‘of the matter, | 8ir Ronald 1s tall, stately, heavy set jnd mustached. He entertains and {1a entertained on magnificent scale in iseason (Novemben to April). He gives four dinners s week and dines out fhree times a week. Such social sc- A tivity might make & physical wreck of a lesser man, but Sir Ronald is up early in the morning and Lady Lind- say is an habitual 6:30 a.m. riser. Entertaining and observance of so- cial precedent constitute one of the chief duties of diplomacy. Hardly does a chief of mission arrive in Washington but he must pay his re- spects to the 52 other chiefs of mis- sion and then’ in turn receive the 52. The British Ambassador now is 60. Like most ambassadors from abroad, he is a foreign office caxeer man. He became an attache in 1898 and has Seen service in St. Petersburg, Te- heran, Paris, The Hague, Constan- tinople and Berlin. He has been finan cial adviser for the Egyptian govern= ment and he was British representa- tive at the International Opium Con- ference at The Hague. When he was in Constantinople he learned Turkish and at Teheran he learned Persian. The initials after Sir Ronald’s name stand for privy councilor (which makes him a right honorable), knight of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, knight commander of the Bath and commander of the Royal Victorian Order. He also is a grand officer, Order of the Nile, Smokers of Germany are cutting down on American tobacco. . ATTENTION STORES —SIGN PAINTERS —DISPLAY MEN We Sell Paramount Wall Board Primetex Wall Board These smooth finished boards are ideal for signs, backgro: cuts and display worl paint beautifully . 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