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...member concerned was tall, flaxen-haired, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced Sands), 30-year-old son-in-law of Winston Churchill. Like the Duchess of Atholl (see p. 17) and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, member of the House of Lords (TIME, July 4), Sandys is a Conservative who has quit the Chamberlain ranks and is now regarded as his father-in-law's voice from the "back benches...
While Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Government last week had its hands full defending Britain's domestic air defenses, from another quarter it was questioned on the security of nothing less than "The Rock'' itself. Was the Prime Minister aware, asked Her Grace the Duchess of Atholl, Conservative M. P., that Spanish Rightist Generalissimo Franco, with Italian and German aid, has so fortified the Spanish seacoast overlooking Gibraltar as to make this keystone of empire practically worthless...
...Duchess' disclosure had an air of authenticity because she is an M. P. who gets around, keeps her ears and eyes open. Since 1923 she has been a member from the backward Scottish agricultural constituency of West Perth and Kinross. At the outbreak of the two-year-old war in Spain, she refused to take sides. Year later she became publicly pro-Leftist, accepted the chairmanship of Britain's National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and inaugurated the scheme which brought 4,000 Leftist moppets as refugees to England. Last April she resigned as Government whip, now votes...
...Edward VIII, were determined to accord the day more formal recognition. Some 250 members, largely middle-aged men and women, crowded into a second-rate restaurant in London's Holborn district for a commemorative dinner and dance. From the French Riviera, where he is summering with the Duchess, the Duke sent greetings...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duchess' 42nd birthday off the Riviera aboard the yacht Frixos, lent them for the occasion by their friend "Nicky" Zographos, head of the Greek gambling syndicate in Monte Carlo, day after moving into their newly redecorated Chateau de la Cröe. Four days later they celebrated the Duke's 44th birthday at home...