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Last week, after gibes by fellow Laborites that he was a "monarchist" who had sold out and "joined in building up the royal wedding ballyhoo," Driberg felt constrained to defend his besmirched leftist reputation by leaning over backward so far he reached almost from Buckingham Palace to Billingsgate. Said Driberg...
Nehru moved about at receptions with high good humor and grace. At India House, he shook hands with the Dowager Marchioness of Willingdon, whose husband had jailed him; at Buckingham Palace, he ate from His Majesty's gold plate, a delightful change from the tin service he had known as a nine-year guest in H. M.'s prisons. Jinnah was socially crusty, giving the impression of a man deeply aggrieved. When the travelers got down to cases, however, it was the smiling Nehru who proved most stubborn...
...strikers were demanding not higher pay, as the Duke thought, but union recognition ot their Union of General and Municipal Workers. Recalling the recent triumph of organized labor at Buckingham Palace (TIME, June 3), one banner in the Savoy Hotel's picket line proclaimed: "What's good enough for the royal household should be good enough for the Savoy...
Henceforth the Royal Family will enjoy the blessings of trade unionism right in their own home; Buckingham Palace has been organized. Two hundred and fifty-six of the 260 royal domestics have joined the Civil Servants Union, which is now negotiating with the Trades Union Congress for affiliation. In collective bargaining with His Majesty's servants, Sir Ulick Alexander, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, and Sir Piers Legh, the Master of the King's Household, will represent the King...
...Besides Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace and Marlborough House (Queen Mary's residence) will also be organized. Sandringham and Balmoral are personal residences, so the servants there do not come under the head of civil servants...