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This time the heroine was Viscountess Astor. As acting mayor of Plymouth town, the trigger-tongued Lady from Virginia had spent the day showing King George and Queen Elizabeth around the city. She sat in the dining room of her house on the Hoe with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, with her 17-year-old dock-working nephew, James Brand (son of the distinguished banker Robert Henry Brand, who was last week in the U. S. buying food for Britain), and with an American correspondent. It was 8:30 p.m. Nancy Astor was tired, but she kept...
...sirens sounded. Lady Astor and her guests stepped outside and watched what she had to admit was "a magnificent sight": flares falling from an armada of Nazi planes, then incendiary bombs planting their fateful beacons, then murder in high explosives. Calm as a Drake, Nancy Astor took note of something which dawned on all Britain last week. The air raids had become part of the Battle of the Atlantic...
With her windows looking out over Plymouth Sound, Lady Astor could not help knowing that a convoy had just arrived. The port was ship-filled, and the freighters were freshly warped in to un load their instruments of defense. It was these ships and the docks and the warehouses after which the bombers had come, and were to come another night. This was part of the new German pattern...
...Beatrice Clough Rathbone, a young Boston socialite who spent much of her youth in China, was about to join Lady Astor in the House of Commons as its second U. S.-born female...
Britain's press lords Beaverbrook (Daily Express), Camrose (Daily Telegraph), Astor (London Times), Southwood (Daily Herald), as well as Poet John Masefield and Information Minister Duff Cooper, ex-Prime Minister Baldwin, last week sent birthday congratulations to Britain's oldest newspaper, Berrow's Worcester Journal, founded in 1690 when William and Mary reigned in Merry England...