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...stately white & gold ballroom of Buckingham Palace, accustomed to the stricter rhythms of military bands, last week reverberated to one of Britain's best bands, Bert Ambrose's Prince's Restaurant Orchestra. King George & Queen Elizabeth were entertaining some 1,000 "personal friends" at the Royal Derby Night Ball. Among the guests were Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. & Mrs. Kennedy, Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. The King and othermale guests wore the court dress of tailcoat and knee breeches. Lone holdout...
King George and Queen Elizabeth, who promptly took likable, new U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy & family into the Buckingham Palace family circle, had these new American friends down to Windsor Castle for the week end. Also present were Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain. London has taken to the Kennedy children almost as enthusiastically as though they were the King's own moppets, and the Sunday Observer has recently come out with the results of a competition in which Britons have been writing verses on the U. S. Ambassador's recent hole-in-one at Stoke Poges...
...morning last week Queen Elizabeth chatted in Buckingham Palace with Frau Joachim von Ribbentrop, daughter of Germany's great Henkell imitation champagne family. Meanwhile, King George VI received Herr Ribbentrop, the new German Foreign Minister and onetime Henkell salesman, who in public makes a point of greeting His Majesty with the Nazi salute (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Below stairs, Buckingham Palace secretaries were receiving news reports from Munich, denied from Berlin, that that great south German city had awakened to find German mobilization against Austria far advanced...
Herr and Frau Ribbentrop, who had been greeted everywhere they went in London with angry cries of "Release Pastor Niemöller!", "Release Thälmann!" and "Get out, Ribbentrop!", then went along from Buckingham Palace to the second most exclusive address in the British Empire, No. 10 Downing Street. There a State luncheon, with plenty of wine, was offered them by Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain, who had invited pro-French Mr. & Mrs. Winston Churchill, pro-German Lord & Lady Londonderry and all the Cabinet's biggest wigs & wives. The news tickers at No. 10 were chattering about...
...Europe was simultaneously drawing deductions from the hospitality of Buckingham Palace and No. 10. The Quai d'Orsay was hearing from Rome that Mussolini, now just entering upon negotiations through diplomatic channels with Chamberlain and already on an Axis with Hitler (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936), was "in these circumstances" not again going to mobilize Italian troops along the frontier of Austria as he did in 1934 after the Nazi assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...