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...James Louis Garvin of the famed independent Observer extended helping hands last week to a young wedded couple whom most other British editors were roasting alive: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, both Socialist M. P.'s, she rich with the millions of her late, great father Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.* "Sir Oswald Mosley has taken his political life in his hands with brilliant fearlessness," wrote Editor Garvin. "He is the only leader of his generation who has the courage to strike out a new path." With 15 fellow M. P.'s including Oliver Baldwin (Socialist...
Those who guffawed think that Oswald and his rich wife, daughter of the late great Lord Curzon, are no true Socialists but a pair of pampered pinkos who are in the Labor Party for a lark...
...Churchill?named for his grandfather Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-95), fiery Conservative orator?was conscious that he was making his first steps along the path to statesmanship. Capitalizing his youth rather than allowing it to be a handicap to him, as did the younger Pitt and the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, young Mr. Churchill is visiting the U. S. on a lecture tour. Whig-Clio Hall at Princeton was his first engagement. There he gave his address "The British Empire and World Progress." Young Mr. Churchill has two other addresses: "Can Youth Be Conservative...
...public, press or politicians; but when a young Briton makes a brilliant maiden speech before the Oxford Union the whole Empire knows of it next morning, and cases are not few in which such a speech has made the young man's whole career-witness the late Marquess Curzon of Keddleston...
...Defending the $40,000,000 Widow's Pensions Bill, famed Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late, great, crusty Conservative Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, made her maiden speech. A rabid Socialist M. P., she cried: "I have been getting something for nothing all my life! . . . Why shouldn't poor widowed women get something for nothing...