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The Big Mistake. Cambridge-educated and an ex-Grenadier Guardsman, "King Freddie," as Londoners came to know him, bore his fate with philosophical good manners. Sustained by a tax-free allowance of ?8,000 from the Crown, he set up housekeeping in a tastefully furnished flat in London's...
Most important was the elevation of Harold Macmillan to Minister of Defense, replacing Lord Alexander. A tough-minded Scotsman who dresses with Edwardian elegance, Macmillan, 60, is a member of the publishing Macmillan family. After Eton and Oxford, he served as a Grenadier and was wounded three times in World...
Sprawled in the governor's chair, wearing a crumpled white linen suit and the blue-and-scarlet tie of the Grenadier Guards, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton listened patiently to the representatives of 6,000,000 Africans, 100,000 Indians, 40,000 whites and 25,000 Arabs The whites...
Died. Alfred Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, 63, British statesman-author; of a heart attack; aboard the French cruise ship Colombie, off Vigo, Spain. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he won the D.S.O. in World War I as an officer of the Grenadier Guards, came home to marry Britain's...
Hands Tied. Shocked by Lyttelton's disclosure that in the last eleven months 2,821 Mau Mau-and Mau Mau "suspects"-have been killed and only 980 captured, the Socialists last week condemned Whitehall's "Shoot to kill" order against the terrorists. Ex-Grenadier Guardsman Lyttelton repulsed them...