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...Britons, Cliveden is part of their country's history, from the distant past up to the present day. All good Englishmen recognize the date, 1668, cut into one lawn and remember how the "witty and wicked" George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, for whom Cliveden was built, abducted Lady Shrewsbury and then killed her pursuing husband while the Lady held the horses. They remember, too, the role of Cliveden in the appeasement years of Prime Ministers Baldwin and Chamberlain, when the "Cliveden set" met there on weekends planning how to circumvent...
White-thatched, idealistic Sir William Henry Beveridge* is one of those Englishmen who believe that post-war reconstruction must go hand in hand with basic social reforms. This belief, voiced in many public utterances, he bases on a lifetime spent in the study of economics and years of experience with social problems. Contemptuous of crackpot Utopias, he backs his statements up with figures, for which he has an abiding passion...
...stayed away, 70-year-old Lady Decies turned up without her tiara. Sartorially the opening of the Metropolitan Opera season last week was pretty much of a bust (see p. 74); but generally the bluebloods had done what they could in the face of war-like fiction's Englishmen dressing for dinner in the jungle. Among the attendant owners of rare baubles, rare pelts, rare beauty or simply rare old blood (see cuts): Mrs. Byron Foy (sapphires and diamonds); Mrs. Walter Moving (ermine); Emily Roosevelt (fifth cousin of the President) ; Mrs. John Jacob Astor (of the onetime fur-trapping...
...Bernard, is a pious man on whom the mark of a religious background is deep. Said he to his soldiers: "Let us unashamedly and humbly ask God's help in our endeavors and strive to deserve it." Like many of his devoted, knobby-kneed Scotsmen and war-hardened Englishmen, he is a veteran of Dunkirk...
...their strange language, which is Semitic dashed with the flavors of Europe, they whispered in their cafés while the outrageous Englishmen bounded up & down the narrow, stepped streets of Valletta, sweated at rugger, cricket, swam in the surf. Though there was never any outburst (the warm, damp sirocco was too enervating and the Maltese were too polite), neither did there burn in Britain's amber jewel any flame of devotion to the King. Not even when, in 1921, his Majesty granted self rule (within limits). The Governors and the governed lived in separate worlds, while many...