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...banquet given recently by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, Sir Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador, was startled by his fork...
...Esmond Ovey made no protest, went on quietly forking some excellent caviar. Beyond a doubt all the knives, forks and spoons on the table had been seized during the Russian Revolution from the then British Embassy-i.e. stolen. Never did the grand old motto of the British Royal Arms turn up more appropriately, "Shamed be he who thinks evil...
Lady Ovey is French. The Ambassador's first wife was the daughter of a U. S. Rear Admiral. Young for a diplomat (51), Sir Esmond's first post as Minister was in Mexico (1925-29). When Prime Minister MacDonald recognized the Soviet Government two years ago, he first picked a more prominent Briton as Ambassador, then switched to Sir Esmond at the last minute...
...Baron Beaverbrook then to achieve his consuming ambition? Will he become Prime Minister? Will he then make Viscount Rothermere's only son, Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, British Ambassador to Somewhere, as that young man and his doting father hope? Even in the face of last week's "miracle" such a development seemed remote?but the old guard politicians must work fast to avert...
...Mlle Simone Thion de la Chaume: the women's golf championship of France (fifth time), beating Mlle Diana Esmond in the finals at St. Germain, 5 & 4. ¶The Yale polo team: the intercollegiate championship, beating Princeton u to c in the finals, at Red Bank, N. J. ¶Stocky, black-haired Julius Seligson of Lehigh: the Eastern intercollegiate tennis championship, beating Clifford Sutter of Tulane in the finals in Brooklyn...