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...London, energetic Victor F. W. Cavendish-Bentinck, 40, who was sacked from the Foreign Service last September after his high-flavored divorce trial, won a Pyrrhic victory. An Appeals Court judge threw out the legal separation Mrs. Cavendish-Bentinck had won; he was convinced, he said, that she herself had misbehaved-indeed, with the husband of one of Victor's own friends...
Victor F. W. Cavendish-Bentinck, Britain's ex-Ambassador to Poland (and, just before that, Ambassador-designate to Brazil), was out a job. The far-ranging diplomat broke into the news last spring when his infidelities in Chile, London, and Athens came out at his wife's divorce trial. Last week he was in the news again: he was quietly dropped from the Foreign Service after 25 years...
Bierut's seven-year term as President began with much ceremony, flecked with U.S. and British icicles. Britain's Ambassador Victor Cavendish-Bentinck and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane stayed away from the Parliament's opening, a mild underscoring of their Governments' protests that it was unfairly elected.* To answer that charge, Poland's Government announced that 68 of its Electoral Commission members and guard had been killed "by the underground" during the election campaign. Mikolajczyk had said that 18 of his party's workers had been killed or died of "mistreatment...
...niceties of diplomacy were not entirely ignored. President Bierut held a formal reception (the invitations specified le cutaway). Britain's Cavendish-Bentinck and the U.S.'s Lane (in a dark business suit) showed up, shook Bierut's hand, drank his health, sat for an hour at a big round table and exchanged pleasantries with Bierut, Berman and others of the ruling clique. There was no hint of tension or mention of terror. Explained a Pole: "Everyone was extremely cordial and polite; after all, we are all gentlemen...
Cavendish-Bentinck did not let the charges against his friends or himself prevent him from discharging his obligation of observing last month's Polish election; he made no secret of his belief (shared by U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane) that the election was neither free nor unfettered, as Britain, the U.S. and Russia had guaranteed at Yalta. Apparently, he felt that it would be a personal and a national disgrace to duck a responsibility his country had assumed...