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Robert Gilbert Vansittart (1881 - 1957) was a significant British diplomat. In the years before World War II, in the Foreign Office, he was a major figure in the unorganised group of anti-appeasement officials and politicians; and also involved in intelligence work. He thought along the same lines as Churchill in terms of anti-appeasement. 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945. ... The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad. ...
ROBERT CLIVE CLIVE, Baron (1725-1774), the statesman and general who founded the empire of British India, was born on the 29th of September 1725 at Styche, the family estate, in the parish of Moreton Say, Market Drayton, Shropshire.
The Clives, or Clyves, were one of the oldest families in the county of Shropshire, having held the manor of that name in the reign of Henry II.
Vansittart, his successor, having no great influence over Jafar Ali Khan, had put Kasim Ali Khan, the son-in-law, in his place in consideration of certain payments to the English officials.
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