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...often in the past) is not the result of nature or of justice, but of the machinations of outsiders. In the closing months of World War II, the Russians coolly announced that they intended to keep permanently the 68,667 sq. mi. of eastern Poland, beyond the so-called Curzon line, which they had grabbed in the piping days of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As compensation, Stalin proposed to give the Poles large chunks of the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia-all in all, some 38,660 sq. mi. of former German territory, including coal deposits richer than...
...Baroness Ravensdale, 62, vice-president of the National Association of Girls' Clubs and Mixed Clubs, and daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, onetime Viceroy of India...
Died. The Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (nee Grace Elvina Hinds of Decatur, Ala.), 80, daughter of a onetime U.S. Minister to Brazil, second wife of the late Marquess Curzon, who was British Viceroy and Governor General of India (1898-1905) and Foreign Secretary (1919-24); near Dover, England. First female recipient of the Grand Cross of the British Empire (conferred on her in 1922 for war work), Lady Curzon was a significant arc in titled circles, an owner of race horses whose brown and pink colors were once familiar at Ascot and Newmarket, and a friend of Lady Randolph Churchill...
Still she wrote, and lavishly entertained unprejudiced friends from the great world, including past and future Viceroys of India, Lords Lytton (Novelist Bulwer-Lytton's son) and Curzon. Troubles piled up. When she offended the Italians with a bitterly realistic story, her pony cart was shot at. She was furious: the noise might have made her ponies nervous. The Italians imposed a muzzling order against all dogs; she spent a night with her beloved pooches in a hackney carriage rather than see their freedom being curtailed...
...EMPEROR" CONCERTO (Beethoven): Clifford Curzon, pianist; George Szell conducting London Philharmonic...