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...Eden Crowell Woodward, a farmer's daughter and onetime model from Pittsburg (pop. 20,000), Kans. enthusiastically shared her husband's interest in the turf and society. Several years ago, after watching Bill Woodward shoot a tiger and a leopard in India, she decided to take up big-game hunting herself. Last winter, in the jungles of Assam, she bagged two tigers (including one tenfooter, an unofficial record for women) and two leopards...
agreed "concurrently" to accept the Eden...
...little jokes and the large admonitions, a disquieting uncertainty hung over the nation. Nobody in Britain expected that the Princess' romance with her divorced com moner would end in the collapse of the British throne, or believed that it could cause more than a passing disruption in Anthony Eden's government. What it could do, and had perhaps already done, was to damage a faith already weakened by repeated blows...
Salisbury has been for years Anthony Eden's close friend and mentor. As Eden's chief representative in the House of Lords, he wields strong influence, and he is pressing it to the full. If the Cabinet came out for amending the Royal Marriage Act to ease the way for Margaret to marry a commoner and a divorced man, Salisbury warned, he would quit the Cabinet. His reasoning was simple and without malice: the Queen heads the Church of England, and Margaret, as a member of her family and a potential successor to her throne, must abide...
...Butler's brake was expected to consist of cuts in government spending and hikes in purchase and profits taxes. He is almost certain to be attacked as a jerky stop-and-go driver-Butler cut taxes only last spring, a month before the election which gave Sir Anthony Eden's government a five-year lease on life. At the time, Hugh Gaitskell, Labor's onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, cried that the voters had been "bribed," and now Laborites stand ready to exhibit Butler's "autumn budget" as proof of their charge. But with perhaps four...