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...slung English four-seater bodies having slide-open "sunshine roofs," cocktail trays opening behind the front seat and other Mayfair niceties. Finally an S. S. has won the premier award at every Concours d'Elégance Automobile held for the past four years in Cannes, Deauville and Biarritz...
...Whitney to prove that Mrs. Vanderbilt could not be trusted to rear and educate her daughter properly. Mrs. Whitney promptly set out to besmirch her sister-in-law's reputation, to show that in the years when she was gadding about Paris, Cannes, Biarritz and Deauville with her hard-drinking, hard-living friends she had paid no heed at all to Gloria's upbringing. Mrs. Harry Hays Morgan, Mrs. Vanderbilt's mother, turned up as one of the most damaging witnesses against her own daughter. Mrs. Morgan testified that for four and a half years Mrs. Vanderbilt...
Second source of the Protocols is an economic romance entitled Biarritz, written in 1868 by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name of Sir John Retcliffe. As a melodramatic interlude in his book Goedsche pictured a secret assemblage of the "Elect of Israel," gathered in a Prague cemetery around the tomb of a mythical "Holy Rabbi." The gathering plots the destruction of the world much as do the Elders in their Protocols. Goedsche's notion, besides inspiring the author of the Protocols, lived on in its own right. In 1893 German editors reported it as the authentic speech...
...good as his word, Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg turned up in Manhattan to deny that he had been on a Biarritz bed with Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and help Mrs. Vanderbilt regain her little daughter Gloria (TIME, Oct. 8). Said he: "It does look as if there is something very dirty back of all this." Demanded Mrs. Vanderbilt's brother, Harry Hays Morgan Jr., who had arrived from France a few days before: "He's a real prince, eh. what, to come all this way?" Besides Brother Harry, the prince found waiting to testify for Mrs. Vanderbilt...
Less backward about the unpleasant details of Mrs. Vanderbilt's life was Gloria's nurse. When the trial was transferred to open court Nurse Keislich told of peeking through a door with Mrs. Morgan one night at Biarritz, seeing Prince Friedrich von Hohenlohe in Mrs. Vanderbilt's bedroom. Concluded Nurse Keislich triumphantly: "He had on pajamas and she had on night clothes...