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Last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, after making Sir Samuel Hoare a political scapegoat in the House of Commons and generally making an exhibition of himself (see p. 12), was summoned to Buckingham Palace. That he and other members of the Cabinet were rebuked in the strongest terms by the King for having made a dangerous mess was an impression publicly strengthened when Squire Baldwin emerged with black and discouraged looks. He was later observed to behave snappishly to his devoted wife Lucy, famed for her pious confidence that whatever Stanley does is but the indirect working of Divine Providence...
...test of Minister for League of Nations Affairs Anthony Eden came within a few hours after he was received in private audience at Buckingham Palace. He might have maintained the reputation he has won in 1935 as "The White Knight of Geneva" and the "Lindbergh of Diplomacy" by resigning from the Cabinet and, as a private member, hewing to the line which has made him famed at Geneva...
...powers. There are six folio volumes labelled "Autographs of English, Scotch, and Irish Peers; South Sea Documents", which contain the list of victims. Here are to be found the documents and signatures of George II, and Queen Caroline when Prince and Princess of Wales, Lord Chesterfield, the Earl of Buckingham, and Sir Robert Walpole, as well as countless others...
...manage while the wedding breakfast was being eaten to hush Schiaparelli for a fewr days by "reserving judgment." Death claimed the bride's father few weeks ago, transformed the nuptials from a national pageant at Westminster Abbey into a "delightful private affair'' in the chapel of Buckingham Palace. H. R. H. slipped a ring of Welsh gold over Lady Alice's finger, repeating after the Archbishop of Canterbury: "With this ring I thee wed. With my body I thee worship. And with all my worldly goods I thee endow!" At the tomb of the Unknown Warrior...
...Silver Jubilee book on the Empire & King, Mr. Buchan achieved his final masterpiece of subtle flattery. When Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett then advised Buckingham Palace that "Mr." Buchan would make a fine Governor-General (part of Canada's reason being that, after 14 peers, the Dominion wanted a commoner), His Majesty proved so oversold on the nomination that he not only made Commoner Buchan his Governor-General but enthusiastically dubbed him Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, then capped this knighthood and vexed many Canadians by raising him to the peerage...