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Secretary Eden, a model diplomat, said nothing with great graciousness. More forthright, after the meeting, was Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, a stampeding emancipatrix if not yet a diplomat. She snorted: "You can't convince a diplomat. We women made an unanswerable case. A woman is far more skillful than a man at wangling another man around, and that is what you want in a diplomat...
When their only son was born on a winter day in 1882, an overdose of chloroform almost cost Sara Roosevelt her life. The nurse could not believe that the boy would live. They called him Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after his great-uncle who had married a Miss Astor. His mother remembered that he was plump and pink...
...first half of her two weeks' stay she 1) addressed the nation over BBC; 2) spoke in the House of Commons in person; 3) ate meals with Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Ernest Bevin, Harry Hopkins, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Brendan Bracken (new Minister of Information), several other members of the British Cabinet; 4) shook hands with some 1,200 leading Britons at a reception in her honor at the Savoy; 5) went to the movies with Anthony Eden* 6) interviewed a score of notables, from Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes to Zionist Chaim Weizmann; 7) spoke at a fireman's dance...
...Cinemactress Anna Neagle headed home for London, agreed that "Hollywood has forgotten about the world." ≤≤ For $1 a year Vincent Astor turned over to the Coast Guard his $2,500,000 yacht Nourmahal, made famous by many a Roosevelt fishing cruise. An earlier Nourmahal, sold by Astor in the mid-'20s, burned last March off Halifax, ≤≤ Bea Lillie gave a benefit performance in food-rationed England, was awarded 24 tomatoes, 14 eggs and six heads of lettuce-not thrown, but delivered, ≤≤ Private "Bummy" Davis, beaten to a pudding by Welterweight Champ Fritzie Zivic...
American-born Lady Astor is coming back to the U.S., to stay "until I have put an end to all the rubbish that is being said about us in the United States...