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...Vladimir Horowitz. 29; in Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...
Died. Viscount Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 71, Britain's Wartime Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; of heart disease after long illness; at Fallodon, Christen Bank, Northumberland. He was Foreign Secretary longer (1905-16) than any other man, was instrumental in shaping the policy which kept England friendly to France, hostile to Germany. In June 1914 he sought desperately to avert the World War, as long as possible delayed sending to Germany the ultimatum on Belgian neutrality which preceded England's declaration of war. For this he was blamed by Englishmen who felt that...
...British Government was paralyzed in July and August of 1914. The situations are almost parallels. In each case, a disaster threatened; in each case, authority refused to check the force of events lest the very movement of checking should bring on catastrophe. The memoirs of Grey of Fallodon match the apologies made for Coolidge and Hoover." Calling the 1929 crash not inevitable but predictable and predicted, Seldes shows how the U. S: gradually began to disbelieve official explanations of the Depression and official prophecies that it would soon be over. He disagrees with "the incompetent business...
...Herbert's Liberals are considered "orthodox" because they champion Free Trade, the traditional Liberal policy and are supported by such venerable colleagues of the late Lord Asquith as half-blind Viscount Grey of Fallodon and the Marquess of Reading, greatest of Britain's living elder statesmen...
...know of no place where closer relations have been established between birds & man than at Fallodon. ... I think that St. Francis would have felt at home there...