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...shocker came from the League's own President of the Governing Commission of the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey George Knox, a swank British career diplomat with the manners of a Curzon and something of the late Marquess' talent for playing the Viceroy. Many a Saar citizen calls the League's Governing Commission the Negerregierung or "Government for Negroes," implying that Mr. Knox treats 100% Nordic, German-speaking Saar folk as if they were, to say the least, his social inferiors. Next January the League Commission must hold a plebiscite to decide whether the Saar shall be reunited with Germany...
...with the production of materials of war were; Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberiain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir Austen Chamberiain, M. P., winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. In 1914 the list was even more imposing. It included that lofty philosopher Lord Balfour, that glittering such Lord Curzon, and also Lord Kinnaird (President of the Y. M. C. A.). three bishops, and Dean Ingo of St.Paul's. It was in that same year that Socialist Philip Snowden spoke in Parliament; "It would be impossible to throw a stone on the benches opposite without hitting a member...
Though Lord Rothermere's frequent gallops rarely get anywhere, a ride with darkling, vivacious, rich Sir Oswald was bound to be interesting. In 1918 he, a War veteran, moved into the House of Commons as a Conservative. Two years later he married Lady Cynthia, daughter of the Marquess Curzon. He began drifting Left, to the Independents, to the Laborites, to the rebel Laborites. In 1932 he swung violently back, past his original Conservative friends, to a new Right extreme, the "British Union of Fascists" whose members he fitted out with black shirts and badges but no anti-Semitic program...
Harold Nicolson tells the story of Arketall, Lord Curzon's famous valet, who was unreasonably fond of the bottle. Lord Curzon was at Locarno, or some such place, representing Great Britain at big peace negotiation. As the day for signing the Pact approached, Arketall got more and more irregular in his habits, and on the morning of "Der Tag," he was quite in his cups. Sitting in bed, with his morning cup of tea, the great British diplomat gave Arketall the sack, told him to decamp within a half-an-hour. An hour later, hurriedly dressing for the meeting...
Died. Horace Kent Tenney, 73, Chicago lawyer (Tenney, Harding, Sherman & Rogers); of heart disease; in Winnetka, Ill. Famed cases: representing four Manhattan banks v. the Insull utility companies (lost, appealed, won), the children of the late Lady Curzon (Mary Leiter) to remove Joseph Leiter as trustee of Levi Leiter's estate (lost), the Chicago Tribune v. Henry Ford in Ford's suit for libel (award...