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Britain, too, was busy courting the dictator powers, to the approval of U. S. Ambassador Kennedy. It was significant that King George & Queen Elizabeth lunched the Italian Crown Princess at Buckingham Palace last week-something which would have been unthinkable before the Big Four got together at Munich...
Such shouts and transports as London has not seen since the Armistice sped Britain's beaming 69-year-old hero to Buckingham Palace. There Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain and the King and Queen were called out on the balcony by a steady surf roar of "Good old Nev! Hurrah for Chamberlain! Peace with honor! Three cheers for Nev! Good old Nev! Peace in our time...
...Queen Elizabeth last week were taking pathetically inadequate precautions, which will leave them just about at ground level in case of an air raid, not 60 feet down under. Read a United Press dispatch from London: "A bomb and gas-proof shelter is being built in the basement of Buckingham Palace for the King and Queen. It consists of two rooms which formerly were the maids' resting rooms. ... A large hole has been knocked in the wall of the Palace near the shelter to enable the King and Queen to escape to the Palace gardens...
...Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare waived formalities, turned into a British subject the jobless longtime (1920-38) Minister of Austria to the Court of St. James's, Baron Georg Franckenstein (who in spite of his beaked nose is an Aryan); 2) King George VI called his new subject to Buckingham Palace, dubbed him Sir George Franckenstein, Knight...
...young Queen Victoria, having ruled England for a year, stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with a proclamation. "Because the slaves of Jamaica are impatient for freedom," she read in a thin young voice, "we proclaim them free; and 100 years from this day the plantations of Jamaica shall be divided into small pieces, and each descendant of these freedmen shall be given a small piece." The crowd cheered; the more enthusiastic abolitionists threw their hats...