Word: cliveden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot of the old fairy tale, Babes in the Wood introduces Chamberlain-umbrella and all -as "The Wicked Uncle," Hitler and Mussolini as "The Robbers." A Cabinet meeting at No. 10 Downing Street takes place in a privy with No. 10 painted on the door. Another scene shows the Cliveden Set, led by Lady Astor, goose-stepping and giving the Nazi salute...
...censorship taboos ridiculing any living person on the stage. Ridiculing the King and Queen would strike most Britishers as unthinkable. Yet London is at present laughing its head off at a play whose characters, though not actually named, unmistakably include King George, Queen Elizabeth, Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini and the "Cliveden...
...Miami last week, Columnist Walter Winchell quoted vacationing Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy to the effect that Charles Lindbergh passed on his gleanings to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the instance of Mr. Kennedy; not, as previously reported, through or at the request of Nancy Astor's "Cliveden...
...most-talked-of political clique in 1938 was the "Cliveden Set," the name applied to a group of eminent Britons who frequented Cliveden, Buckinghamshire estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Occasional visitors to Cliveden are Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Geoffrey Dawson,' editor of the potent London Times, which is owned by Lady Astor's brother-in-law. Major John Jacob Astor; and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...certain Clivedenites Lindbergh reputedly delivered his reputedly damaging remarks on the Russian Air Force which reputedly scared the British Government out of sticking up for Czechoslovakia. The "Cliveden Set" became a synonym for a sort of Fifth Column working on behalf of Germany behind the back of the British Government. Last week the Hostess of Cliveden did her best to convince a Manhattan sob sister that this conception was all wrong...