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That was the last real peep out of the Western powers. Soft-spoken U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon could hardly be heard across the conference table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Cook & the Potatoes | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...conference's first day it became apparent where Yugoslavia stood on the issue between Communism and the West. U.S. Delegate Cavendish Cannon asked that English be added to Russian and French as official languages of the conference. Vishinsky smilingly retorted that most of the participating states "loved and understood the Russian language." Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler supported him vigorously-in Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Danube Blues | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Edward William Spencer Cavendish, enormously wealthy 10th Duke of Devonshire, faced a period of inactivity as High Steward of Cambridge University, now that the House of Commons had voted to suspend the death penalty. Disclosed the Duke: "My only known duty as High Steward"-which he had never performed in ten years-"had been to attend the hanging of any undergraduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Working Class | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...London, energetic Victor F. W. Cavendish-Bentinck, 40, who was sacked from the Foreign Service last September after his high-flavored divorce trial, won a Pyrrhic victory. An Appeals Court judge threw out the legal separation Mrs. Cavendish-Bentinck had won; he was convinced, he said, that she herself had misbehaved-indeed, with the husband of one of Victor's own friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Furrowed Brow | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Victor F. W. Cavendish-Bentinck, Britain's ex-Ambassador to Poland (and, just before that, Ambassador-designate to Brazil), was out a job. The far-ranging diplomat broke into the news last spring when his infidelities in Chile, London, and Athens came out at his wife's divorce trial. Last week he was in the news again: he was quietly dropped from the Foreign Service after 25 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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