Evening star., 1951-07-05
Lord InverehapeI,
Former Envoy 10 U. s.,
Dies in Scotland al 50
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any man who has ever represented
his country abroad" He made
many friends throughout the
United States.
He amazed Washington society
a year after he arrived by flying
back to Scotland to remarry the
beautiful blond Chilean wife he
had divorced in 1945 on charges
of desertion after she refused to
accompany him to Moscow. She
is % years his Junior.
Travelled Widely in U. S.
Lord Inverehapel travelled widely
in the United States and once
spent three days on an Iowa farm
as the guest of a All youth who
had visited the British Embassy.
While at the farm, Lord Inver-
chapel helped wash the dishes
and weed the garden patch each
evening.
The humor-loving diplomat cap
tivated Washington's press corps
shortly after his arrival with an
interview at which he made fun
of the STIFFNESS of most diplo-
mats. When reporter asked him
what diplomats carry in their little
black bags he answered:
Il carry a spare pair of false
teeth in mine /
Between 1906, when he started
out as an attache in the Embassy
at Berlin, and his selection as Am
basSador to Washington, the most
coveted diplomatic post, he repre-
sented his country in a dozen diff
ferent capitals on four continents.
The only break in his service was
during World War I, when he
served as private in the famous
Scots Guards.
Served in Explosive" Post.
In the summer of 1887, the
British Ambassador to China, Sir
Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-
HugeSsen, was seriously wounded
when japanese plane machine
gunned his automobile. Four
months later the then Sir Archi-
bald John Kerr Clark Kerr (pro-
nounced Carr was appointed to
succeed him in that explosive post.
The japanese placed him high
on the list of those they wanted
liquidated and he was in almost
constant peril. In 1889 it was an
nounced that a plot against his
life had been discovered and
heavy police guard was placed /
around his home Generalissimo /
Chang Kai-shek insisted on his
travelling in bullet-proof auto
mobile and learning to handle
machine gun.
After Japan entered World War
II. his residence in Chungking
was a frequent target for Japa-
nese bombers. but he refused to
move to safer place.
In February, 1912, Sir Archi-
bald became Ambassador to Mos
COW and stayed there during the
dark period when the fighting
reached within a few miles of the
city. Russia remained his post of
duty throughout the war. He was
familiar figure at wartime con-
ferences of the Big Three as spe-
cial adviser to Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
Receives BarOny.
For his work during those cru
cial years he received a baronyl
and took the title of Baron Inver-
chapel of Loeb Eek. "Inverchapel"
is the name of his family home
in Scotland. It's literal meaning
in old Gaelic is field where the
mare grazes." "Loch Eek" is a
small lake on the place.
Lord Inverchapel was the di-
rect opposite of the popular con-
ception of a British ambassador.
Friendly and informal, with a
rare sense of Scotch humor, he
was known to his friends as
Archie" An inveterate pipe
smoker he usually carried two
pipes with him and kept four
dozen on his mantel. Stain also
was a pipe smoker and this was
a strong tie between the two.
1t was rarely that ambassadors
saw Stain and when they did the
interviews usually lasted only a.
few minutes, particularly when
they saw him for the first time.
But Lord Inverchapel's first in
terview with the Russian Premier
was different and he liked to tell
about it.
Together on Shelter.
"It lasted two hours and a
half" he would say, "and we be-
came good friends. You see, five
minutes after / was introduced
to him, the air raid siren went off
and we spent the next two hours
and Is minutes in the air raid
shelter in the Kremlin"
When he went to Moscow he
Mortified his staff by plowing up