European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Sir David Ormsby Gore with preside no left i frequent Viii or at the White haute. Resident Kennedy i Britain by Stanley me1sler a staff writer e dark lean Man joins president Kennedy. They Chat on the yacht Honey flt at Palm Beach Fla. The laugh during the army Navy football game in Philadelphia. They applaud a perform once of Irma la Douce at Washington s National theatre. They Dine it a private party in the White House. Their Friendship and Commini Enship i rare and near in Peri it Ali d in who puny lean Man a year younger than the president has a High forehead Long swept Back hair a Sharp very British nose. He u sir David Ormsby Gore a Friend of John f. Kennedy from younger More care re Day she la a politician. He is the heir of a Nobleman. And he is the British Ambas Sador to the United a British ambassador should be a career Diplomat advanced i years Prim and proper in his dealings with the chief of is a politician in his first Post As ambassador the Only political appointment in the entire butt us foreign service 44 years old and the constant companion of his old Friend Jack. Who happens to be chief of one doubts that when the British government counted up All the Plussas an minutes of its candidates for am ban and or to the administration of president Ken Nedy the minus of Ormsby Gore s youth and inexperience a easily Halo lord out by the plus of his Friendship with or. other ambassador has Chr ear and Friendship of president Kennedy the Way Ormsby Gor denies that his Friendship a Ltd the president has made him a poor ambassador for Britain. He says. In fact that it May have made him a belter of course is not for me to he replied when asked about this in a interview. But 1 believe lord Home the British foreign Secretary would soy that the Friendship has helped. My diplomatic contacts have Bee mostly with the state he said. The official times that i Hove seen the president have been comparatively few although i do bring up an official matter from time to time on social occasions. But we have no difficulty at All i differentiating my role As ambassador and As Friend. I simply say the prime min ister has asked me to say and the presi Dent knows immediately that 1 am taking up official business. This is no problem at m thy Clare s closeness with or. Ken Nelly evidently generates no discontent i Llott at the White House or the . Embassy aides with British understatement May Tell you he close Ness certainly Hnsen t Hurt them. And White House aides cull Ormsby Gore our kind of David Ormsby Gore first met John at the London Home of the Ken Nedys in 1038 when the president s father Joseph p. Kennedy was . Ambassador to Britain. Ormsby Core was 20 and Asl Udint at Oxford then and John f. Ken Nedy was 21 and a student at the Londo school of economics. Actually of Ruhy Gore was closer to s brother Joseph jr., and their sister Kathleen who married lord Harlington. A Cousin of Ormsby Gore. Ormsby. Gore himself married Kathleen s beat Friend. Sylvia Lloyd Thomas. Iwo years Ore All Contemp Torrales Ormsby Gore recalls and met at the same dance Sand House these Early friendships and relation ships were wrenched by Early deaths. Bot lord la Arlington and Joseph or. Were killed in world War u. Kathleen died in an air plane crash after the War. But John f. Kennedy and Ormsby Gore never lost touch and As both developed into politician their Friendship despite the distance Between them strengthened. Politics engulfed Ormsby Gore As hebrew up. His father lord Harlech served in parliament for 28 years. After education in Oxford service with the armed forces during world War ii. A course in Dairy ing on family fond in Shropshire. Ormsby Gore was elected in 1950 on the conservative party ticket As a member of the House of commons. At 33 years of age he represented a group of Young men trying to push tothe for in conservative party politics. But no one Ever made the mistake of classing him As on of Britain s angry Young men or flaming Young radicals. Once in parliament Ormsby Gore quickly roue to the Post of parliamentary private Secretary in the foreign ministry and by 1961, when he gave up his seat to tahe the Post of ambassador he was serv ing As British minister of state for for Elan offi irs equivalent to the no. 3 postin the foreign ministry. Ormsby Gorc s political career however will be a limited one. He la his father s heir and will become the 5th lord har Lech upon the death of his father. Under British Law he then would lit Intlehouse of lord not the House of commons. His career on ambassador also May Bea limited one. Elections arc expected in Britain in the near future and Home observers forecast a Victory for the Lubor parly. There is some doubt that a labor government would retain conservative Ormsby Core As the Only no career Diplo mat in the British foreign service. Officially and socially the life of a ambassador keeps Ornsby Gore in Swift Pace. Like or. Kennedy an avid Reader of newspapers he usually has the new York Washington and London Pape read before he Arr via in his spacious Glass enclosed Blue upholstered office at9 30 . For a half hour he handles some paperwork person Illy reviewing every Cable Gram that Comet to the embassy and the prepares to receive the Stream of visitor that Call on a British ambassador everyday minister members of parliament British civil sen ants student contest winners ambassadors. Journalists and More. After i half hour of paper work inthe afternoon the Stream continues. While receiving visitor. Ormsby Gore must find time to make Calls on ambassadors himself appear on television drop in at the state department act As hosta dinner parties attend receptions usually one or two a nigh tour the United states and join president Ken Nedy on the yacht at the theater at the football game or in the White . 24, 1963 the stars and stripes 11
