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...Observatory is located between Concord Avenue and Garden Street with entrances on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street, and on Garden Street, opposite Linnaeum Street. Automobiles should enter by the Garden Street gate...
...Certainly George V does not want Prime Minister MacDonald's Government defeated in the House of Commons. Seemingly it is impregnable, with 556 seats out of the entire House of 615. But last week King George gave a garden party at Buckingham Palace. So many Government supporters came to eat raspberries & cream that on a snap vote in the House of Commons the Government missed defeat by only seven ballots...
...Leaving Buckingham Palace after a late chat with George V last week, lean, purposeful U. S. Conference Delegate Key Pittman found himself marooned in the palace courtyard. The tall iron gates were locked. The imposing Grenadier Guards in their massive bearskin hats refused to do any unlocking. Senator Pittman pleaded to be let out. After long argument, the Grenadier Guards, still unable to comprehend why Delegate Pittman should not have been called for by his own car if he really was a person of such importance, grudgingly let him escape and hail a taxi...
Celebrated. The 40th wedding anniversary of Britain's George & Mary; at Buckingham Palace. Royal servants drank the traditional toast in champagne...
...white-chinned King Feisal of Irak, who had been escorted across the Channel by four British destroyers, met at Dover by the Duke of York. Reporters admired his gleaming white tunic and his golden spurs. Guns banged a royal salute, and Kings, Cabinet Ministers and assorted princes rode down Buckingham Palace Road with a clattering cavalry escort. The welcome was not entirely due to King George's friendship for Irak's King. The British mandate over Irak expired last year and British blandishments are the cheapest means of keeping secure in independent Irak such British '"rights...