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As a graduate of Eton and Oxford, a good London clubman (Bucks and Beefsteak), a wartime Grenadier Guardsman, an unsuccessful Tory candidate for the House of Commons, the son of a former colonial governor of Kenya and a peer of the realm, young (32) John Edward Poynder Grigg, 2nd Baron...
When Western leaders began negotiating for EDC in 1951, Chancellor Adenauer, who had called Speidel from his classroom in 1950 to act as military adviser, sent him as West Germany's "observer" to Paris. As a German who had learned to speak fluent French as assistant military attache in...
Next morning, while London pundits predicted almost with one voice that his successor would probably be Lord Privy Seal Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, curious crowds gathered before the palace gates. At 1:45 p.m. a cry went up when a small, dusty Wolseley entered the palace gates: "Here comes Butler...
Called from his studies by World War I, Macmillan served gallantly in the Grenadier Guards, was wounded three times. After the war he served long enough as aide to the Duke of Devonshire, then Canada's Governor General, to meet and marry his daughter. Lady Dorothy Cavendish. Through his...
From birth, Alexei Jawlensky, son of a Czarist colonel, was pointed toward a military career. But he wanted to paint. Sent to cadet school in Moscow and later commissioned in an infantry grenadier regiment, Jawlensky petitioned for a transfer to St. Petersburg, where as an officer he could study painting...