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After a three-hour parley in historic Chateau Frontenac, Prime Ministers Churchill and King drove to the moated, ivy-draped Citadel for lunch. Later they called socially on leaders of the Quebec provincial government. Astute Winston Churchill did not neglect to speak French in the company of French Canadians. Then he parted briefly from his host for sight-seeing at Niagara, where he shopped for scenic postcards and remarked: "I've never seen the water look so green...
Indisputable Nitwits. Some of the most ominous pages of Between the Thunder and the Sun describe the prewar scene at the Château de 1'Horizon, a villa near Antibes on the south coast of France. The chateau belonged to graciously aging U.S. Actress Maxine Elliott, aunt of Sheean's wife, Diana Forbes-Robertson. Like the society of which it is a symbol, the chateau perched precariously on a rock between the railroad tracks and the deep blue...
...nation's wine stocks are also depleted. Last week the auction of a late Mayfair hostess' cellar brought these smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...
...school, he joined Canadian Pacific Railway Co. in 1901, became its president in 1918, resigned a year ago. Under him Canadian Pacific operated the greatest privately owned track mileage (21,021) in North America, two-ocean fleets (the famed Empresses), a Great Lakes fleet, a string of luxury hotels (Chateau Frontenac), controlled Canada's second-largest mining company, held some 5,000,000 acres of land, ran its own cable and telegraph systems. A lifelong bachelor, Sir Edward was a remarkable double - in face, figure, mannerisms and dress - for England's Admiral Beatty, World War I naval hero...
This admission was made at the time Bedaux's 14th-Century chateau in France was being used for the wedding of the Duke to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. Thereafter Bedaux's fascist tie-up became more evident. It did not involve Windsor except through Bedaux's attempts to convert the former British king, among others, to a new Bedaux system of "economic and social appeasement." This theory thinly disguised Nazi ideology by advocating the intervention of the state in labor controversies and class frictions (i.e., improving the lot of the masses by putting them in their place...