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Last week the remnants of Arthur Neville Chamberlain's worldly possessions went on the auction block at his home in Birmingham. Already distributed to relatives and friends were his umbrella, his fishing tackle, butterfly collections, other valuables. With little enthusiasm, women souvenir hunters and secondhand dealers bid for the rest, a motley collection of old juvenile books, pottery, bedraggled furniture. High bid of ?55 was for a piano. A settee from the Chamberlain drawing room went for ?7; an oak bureau with graduated drawers, for "accommodating birds' eggs," for 15 shillings...
...Richard Wagner one of Nazidom's special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and goddesses in his Ring of the Nibelungs; he and his wife Cosima were also openly antiSemitic, believed and spread the racial nonsense preached by Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Yet Wagner himself was perhaps what Nazis call non-Aryan. He may have been the son of a supposedly part-Jewish actor named Ludwig Geyer. Last week this old contention, long pishtushed by German Wagnerites, was bolstered by new evidence...
...Oxford rowing Blue and ... a nephew of Neville Chamberlain...
Three thousand miles away in the U. S., where there had been much talk of a new Britain run for little men by liberal men, there was some surprise at this choice: a Lordship, a Tory, an old Etonian, a man once associated with Chamberlain and the Cliveden set and that horrid word, appeasement. There were old-fashioned family tie-ups: the only other Foreign Secretary who subsequently became Ambassador to the U. S., Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was Lord Halifax's third cousin, and the man named to succeed him, Anthony Eden, is also his third cousin.* Lord...
...AMERICAN STAKES-John Chamberlain-Carrick & Evans...