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Craignez honte-Fear disgrace-is the motto of Britain's Cavendish-Bentinck family. It does not mean "Fear accusations." Poland's Communists, abetted by their comrades in London, used the technique of the personal smear campaign against British Ambassador Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, who faced it coolly. Then Polish Government officials simply refused to see Cavendish-Bentinck. Last week, his usefulness in Warsaw ended, he announced that he had been transferred to another post. London sources said it was a better...
Cavendish-Bentinck's Polish experience had been bitter. To find out what was going on, he had driven around Poland, visited old friends, including some aristocrats he had known since 1919, when he was assigned to Warsaw as Third Secretary. Last November the Polish Government arrested his friend Count Ksawery Grocholski, whooped up an espionage trial that pointed to Cavendish-Bentinck (without naming him) as the recipient of "military and state secrets...
Cavendish-Bentinck went right on seeing Poles of all shades, of opinion. The London Daily Worker opened the attack on another front, "discovering" that Cavendish-Bentinck had been separated from his American wife for seven years. He had filed suit for divorce in 1945; his wife filed a countersuit shortly after. The contents of neither complaint have ever been made public in Britain. A Warsaw paper, Express Wieczorny, took up the Daily Worker's cry under a headline: "One Wife and Five Mistresses," asserting that Cavendish-Bentinck had "five women, each in a different country." Next, the Polish Government...
Speaking for the Cambridge trustees, William Bentinck-Smith '37 emphasized that the committee was essentially an interim arrangement, set up with a view to getting the organization going, and that it did not mean the elimination of other interested undergraduates from election...
Speaking for the Cambridge trustees, William Bentinck-Smith '37 emphasized that the committee was essentially an interim arrangement, set up with a view to getting the organization going, and that it did not mean the elimination of other interested undergraduates from election...