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London seethed at the implied rebuke in White's statement, but the next development brought British reaction to the boiling point. Out of Athens came reports that Career Diplomat Cavendish Welles Cannon, U.S. Ambassador to Greece, had followed up the Washington statement with an expression of "sympathetic concern" for Greece, and praise for Greek "dignity and statesmanship" in the affair. British newspapers promptly roared that this was an insult to Great Britain (a "kick in the teeth," said London's Daily Mail); Sir Roger Makins, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., officially demanded an explanation...
...sympathy and support to Makarios himself in his tropical island exile. Greece talked of withdrawing from NATO, and actually did withdraw its ambassador from London. The U.S. State Department tried to avoid taking sides between its Greek and British friends (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), but in Athens, U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon called on Greek Premier Konstantin
Premier Papagos' government has been slow in working out plans. U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon has kept an anxious eye on the situation, and Washington has been urged to absorb as many of the repatriates as possible under the Greek quota (17,000 a year), and to chip in with money if the Greek government can figure out a workable plan...
...stately homes of England, perhaps the stateliest is Chatsworth, a vast Palladian palace set on 50,000 acres of park and woodland, which for generations has been the family seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, whose family name is Cavendish. The first earl, who was one of Henry VIII's bullyboys, began amassing the huge family fortune by taking over some of the prize abbey lands confiscated during Henry's fight with Rome. The Devonshires came to epitomize the British landed aristocracy, and became famous for their arrogant eccentricities...
...heir to pay a full 80% of the ?3,000,000 assessed value of Chatsworth and its art collection. To cover the cost of the levy, the art collection itself would have to be broken up and sold. Without much hope of success, 34-year-old Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, the elegant young eleventh Duke of Devonshire, appealed the ruling...