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...DRIBERG, M.P. London
...What Trapper Driberg innocently calls a "possibly outmoded derivation" the Oxford English Dictionary labels "an ingenious but baseless conjecture...
...fortnight ago, peppery Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg let fall some pretty gossip in his Reynolds News column concerning a possible marriage between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, who fought in the British Navy during the war, and who will take British citizenship in February. The Prince, said Driberg, is "intelligent and broadminded, fair and good-looking...
Last week, after gibes by fellow Laborites that he was a "monarchist" who had sold out and "joined in building up the royal wedding ballyhoo," Driberg felt constrained to defend his besmirched leftist reputation by leaning over backward so far he reached almost from Buckingham Palace to Billingsgate. Said Driberg...
When the King and his coach had gone, the House of Commons got down to what was really on its mind: the "revolt" [strictly verbal] of Labor backbenchers, led by Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg, who think Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's policy too anti-Russian. Said Driberg: "I must warn the Foreign Secretary that . . . the people of this country will certainly not follow him to war now or in five years' time against Soviet Russia in partnership with the barbaric thugs of Detroit or the narrow imperialists of Washington or Wall Street...