Word: buckingham
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Britons saw him off with sincere regret. They respect Joe Kennedy because he has run his Embassy as smoothly as a Wall Street office, and because he is the kind of American who could never become Anglicized. The King and Queen invited him to a farewell lunch at Buckingham Palace. Government bigwigs streamed in & out of the Embassy office at No. 1 Grosvenor Square. The Windsor horse-mounted Home Guards trotted around to say goodby. The Evening News declared gratefully: "It is Mr. Kennedy single-handed who has strengthened Anglo-American friendship in London." The Times paid him the frankest...
...shelter problem was Admiral Sir Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans. And significant of the increasing seriousness of the morale problem was a visit by King George and Queen Elizabeth last week to some of Sir Edward's choicest bombed areas, new and old. As common sufferers whose home (Buckingham Palace) had received a share of bombs, Their Majesties picked their way through debris, watched wrecking crews work, talked with A. R. P. wardens...
Hitler at Buckingham Palace...
Please note the enclosed picture from TIME, Sept. 23, and explain how Hitler got to Buckingham Palace in time to help clear away the debris. Maybe he didn't miss the bus after...
...members have been made available for refugees handled by the Boston Transcript, though only a handful of these children are now living in Cambridge, with a few more arriving every day or so. Many of the children are going to private schools in Greater Boston such as Dexter and Buckingham...