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...Adolph S. Ochs. On April 22, 1921, Mr. Ochs, as the potent publisher of the New York Times, was invited to breakfast at No. 10 Downing St. by Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Afterward he was shown into the office of First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Lee of Fareham, secretaries were sent out of the room, the doors were closed. As palpitating Publisher Ochs afterward recorded in his memorandum, "I left this conference in a high state of elation, feeling very much complimented to be entrusted with so important and epoch-making a message...
Premier Baldwin had, a fortnight previously, expressed a desire to see more personal discussion between U. S. and British representatives. (And Viscount Lee of Fareham had suggested a two-man conference...
Anxious to put their distinguished guest at ease, the newsvendors invited to sit beside him jovial Viscount Lee of Fareham, who is just now ferreting into corruption at Scotland Yard as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure. The prominence of the chairman's police activities probably disarmed any suspicion on Ambassador Houghton's part that Viscount Lee, who used to be First Lord of the Admiralty, would try to draw him out on the delicate subject of Anglo-U. S. naval rivalry. Lord Lee did just that. Worse, he raised a preliminary laugh...
Clearing his throat, taking a sip of water, and folding up his prepared speech, Alanson Bigelow Houghton sat down without mentioning the issue raised by Lord Lee of Fareham. But Manhattan dailies, and many another throughout the U. S., carried editorials approving Lord Lee's suggestion for a two-Power two-man conference...
...George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount Lee of Fareham, who had given his own estate, Chequers, to be used as a summer residence for British premiers...