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Killed in Action. William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 27, Protestant husband of ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's daughter Kathleen (married last May in a Chelsea registry office, without Catholic consent), Captain in the Coldstream Guards, heir to the Duchy of Devonshire; in France. The Marchioness has been in the U.S. since August when her oldest brother, Joseph Jr., was killed in action...
...Ex-Ambassador Bullitt, now a major in the French Army, had uttered no such call. No human being in his senses wants a war between England and America on one side and Russia on the other. No human being in his senses wants war at all. But few sensible men saw much hope of lasting peace anywhere in the world if suspicions could not be aired and beaten out like rugs in the sun-and if communications across boundaries could not be couched in some warmer language than diplomacy, in cooler words than a curse...
...Back to Touhy's. In the Illinois section, Ed Kelly suddenly snapped at Scott Lucas: "Christ Almighty, let's get in this thing. We're clean out." Out rushed the whole Illinois delegation for a caucus at John Touhy's. Wyoming switched to Truman. Aging, ex-Ambassador James Gerard got the microphone for New York, rasped out: "New York is now unanimous. . . . Make it 93 for Truman." The Truman total: 558½, with 589 needed to nominate...
...Book. Of her novel ex-Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who is himself an author (Mission to Moscow), says in a foreword: "The Rainbow [is] typical of modern, wartime Russia. First [it] is the work of a woman. Second, it is the work . . . of a Pole. Third, it is the work of a writer who has taken an active part in the political as well as literary affairs...
Warm Hearts. For two days, in a do-gooder atmosphere of maiden ladies, ministers, matrons, high-school students and professors, the Peoria convention drowsed and listened to worthy speeches by Representative Will Rogers Jr., ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Federal Union's President Streit. Peoria's Hotel Père Marquette was suitably draped in red-white-&-blue bunting. The LaSalle Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn...