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...consequence was polishing the London Naval parley off into oblivion. The delegates did their own adjourning, but for Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, for Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira and for U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis the big moments last week were when each was called separately to Buckingham Palace. Each was questioned closely by George V, in his youth an active seadog, today primed with an amazing fund of naval knowledge and a still more amazing vocabulary of naval oaths...
...harmless social climber like genial Jimmy Thomas could ever have done such a thing was distinctly puzzling. He was not even present when members of the Royal Family signed the register at Westminster Abbey. Cabinet ministers like himself signed later at Buckingham Palace. Moreover, if he had managed to sign first, would either King George or Queen Mary have been likely to sign below James Henry Thomas...
...cream-and-gold three-room suite at Buckingham Palace, with her parents next door in four rooms, her sisters upstairs...
...second marriage, necessitated by Marina's Greek Orthodox faith, solid gold vessels and nuptial crowns were provided in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. Undisclosed was the emolument of gorgeously robed and perfumed Archimandrite Germanos for his "Oh Lord our God, crown them with glory and honor...
...Convened for the winter session amid a London pea-soup fog so dense and choking that for the first time in history the Sovereign left Buckingham Palace to open Parliament not in the gorgeous, drafty old State Coach but in his sleek, fog-tight Daimler. Even the Crown, which usually arrives in its own State Coach, was limousined...