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Conservative Back-Bencher Captain Victor Cazalet snorted that the Government, by mollycoddling the Arabs, risked giving the world an impression that Britain is "prepared to make terms with the enemy." Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair argued that the League of Nations should have been consulted, accused the Government of "presuming to be the judge of its own case...
Among the Conservative objectors was young, wealthy Victor Cazalet, M. P. from Chippenham, brother of Thelma Cazalet, M. P. Victor Cazalet has cottoned to Americans ever since his undergraduate days at Oxford. Often a visitor to the U. S., he has good neighbors from Wall Street and Park Avenue to Hollywood. Probably no M. P. has ever taken so many Americans to tea at the House of Commons. Young Mr. Cazalet was also a champion tennis and racquets player in his student days, is one of the only Britons who can give Egyptian Amr Bey a run for his money...
Married, Leonora ("Snorks") Wodehouse, daughter of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, British humorist (Leave It to Psmith, Very Good, Jeeves and 37 others); and Peter Cazalet, racehorse breeder; in Shipbourne, Kent, England...
Suave, Sir Esmond made no protest at the banquet. Resolute, he exerted quiet pressure later. Last week in the British House of Commons Capt. Victor Cazalet, Oxonian, M. P. who greatly admires money, popped this question...
...Rocked and resounded with gallant cries of "Hear, hear!" from members of all three parties as Conservative Captain Victor Cazalet, smart socialite and admirer of U. S. rich folk, proposed a bill which both male and female M. P.'s think will please women. If passed, a woman who marries a foreigner will have the option of remaining a subject of George V, instead of being forced to embrace the husband's nationality. U. S. women already have this right. ¶ Gloomed at a statement by Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson that "after thorough consideration" the Labor Government...