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...Manhattan's Times Square last week a big woman stepped out from the Hotel Astor, shouldered her way to a waiting automobile. The doorman stopped...
...Challenge of the Atomic Bomb." It was a time and a topic that pressed humility upon the brows of larger men, searching their hearts to root out the seeds of conflict with their fellows. Harold Laski was troubled by no doubts. Tinnily, his arrogant challenge rang through the Astor Hotel's crowded ballroom...
Snapped Lady Astor: "Ribbentrop has never been to Cliveden and he came only once to St. James [the Astors' London house]. Then he gave me the Nazi Heil-Hitler salute and I said 'Stop that nonsense with...
...what Jackson called the "dramatic disparity" between victors and vanquished, were less pleased, got ready to fight back. At a press conference (at which they faced some 200 hostile reporters, most of whom jeered and booed) they announced an impressive list of witnesses they wanted subpoenaed, including Lady Astor, Lords Beaverbrook, Londonderry and Derby, all supposedly belonging to the prewar "Cliveden Set" of after-dinner appeasers...
Lady Nancy Astor sputtered with indignation. Since 1938 she has been denying charges that the group of influential Britons who once gathered at her husband's old estate, Cliveden, were pro-Nazi. And now the story was up again, with Joachim von Ribbentrop's request that members of the Cliveden Set be called as witnesses in his defense...