Robert Vansittart

Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart GCB GCMG MVO PC (25 de Junio de 1881 – 14 de Febrero de 1957), conocido como Sir Robert Vansittart entre 1929 and 1941, lo que a senior British diplomat in the period before and during the Second World War. He was Principal Secretario Privado de to the Prime minister from 1928 to 1930 and Permanentemente Under Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938 and later served as Jefe Diplomatic Adviser to the British Government. He is best recordado for his oposición to apaciguamiento and his strong stance against Germany during and after the Second World War. Vansittart lo que a published poeta, novelista and playwright. Vansittart lo que a close friend of productor Alexander Korda. He ayudado Korda with the financing of London Film. His full title, awarded to him after World War II, lo Barón Vansittart de Denham, after the town where Londres Película had its studio. Vansittart contributed to four motion pictures. He wrote the screenplay for Wedding Ensayo (1933), contributed dialogue to Sixty Gloriosa Years (1938) y, bajo el seudónimo de Robert Denham," provided song lyrics for Korda's The Thief of Bagdad (1940) y "The Jungle Book" (1942), en colaboración con the notad Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa with whom he also wrote the concert musical work for voces, "Beast of Burden" (1940).