Word: cliveden
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...less pleased, got ready to fight back. At a press conference (at which they faced some 200 hostile reporters, most of whom jeered and booed) they announced an impressive list of witnesses they wanted subpoenaed, including Lady Astor, Lords Beaverbrook, Londonderry and Derby, all supposedly belonging to the prewar "Cliveden Set" of after-dinner appeasers...
Lady Nancy Astor sputtered with indignation. Since 1938 she has been denying charges that the group of influential Britons who once gathered at her husband's old estate, Cliveden, were pro-Nazi. And now the story was up again, with Joachim von Ribbentrop's request that members of the Cliveden Set be called as witnesses in his defense...
...walrus-moustached, bloated Colonel Blimp of the David Low cartoon is associated with the Cliveden set of umbrella-toting appeasers, with the narrow selfishness that, along with other attributes, is labeled fascist. Cinema's Colonel Blimp is less bitterly presented, and while he is frequently laughed at he's not a bad sort...
Said the sharp-tongued mistress of Cliveden meekly: "I had no idea I was doing anything wrong...
...around Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are a "gang," in the same sense that the New Deal or the Ohio Republican machine or the Cliveden set have been gangs. These are not sharp, rugged characters; these are reflections of the Generalissimo's many faces. But they are tough babies...