LATE LORD LOTHIAN
FUNERAL AT ARLINGTON TODAY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LIKELY TO ATTEND. CHOICE OF NEW AMBASSADOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, December 13. The State Department announced that the body of the British Ambassador to the United States, Lord Lothian, who died on Thursday, will be cremated and the ashes interred temporarily in the. Arlington National Cemetery, v the resting place of America’s military heroes, on December .16.
Cremation will take place after a memorial service in the Cathedral of Peter and Paul on December 15. Internment will be with full military honours. The ashes will be deposited in a vault under the’ mast of tne memorial battleship Maine till the family and the British Government decide the final resting place. . A British source revealed that Pies dent Roosevelt is likely to attendL Lothian's funeral, since he is cutt o short his cruise, landing at Cl ™\ „ ““ by President Roosevelt on me cessor. It is lvno . United would be welcomed m hign States d uar^' S ’ ps , a g e states that Mr AL ° kon i ‘being widely discusAnthony Edei 01 . ( 0 Lord Losed as a likely s United thian as Ambass dm to , g widcly
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1940, Page 5
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194LATE LORD LOTHIAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1940, Page 5
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