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...bombs had begun raining down last week on the British naval base at Singapore and the adjoining native State of Johore, they would have had no chance of hitting its Sultan. With rare courage for an Oriental potentate, he has insisted upon living in blitzed London. There, at swank Grosvenor House, which puts on one of the flashiest girl shows in the British Isles, the 67-year-old Sultan of Johore spends the sort of life that few 20th-century sultans live outside the sultry cartoons of Esquire. Last week Johore rejoiced in a new houri, the shift being directly...
...Embassy as smoothly as a Wall Street office, and because he is the kind of American who could never become Anglicized. The King and Queen invited him to a farewell lunch at Buckingham Palace. Government bigwigs streamed in & out of the Embassy office at No. 1 Grosvenor Square. The Windsor horse-mounted Home Guards trotted around to say goodby. The Evening News declared gratefully: "It is Mr. Kennedy single-handed who has strengthened Anglo-American friendship in London." The Times paid him the frankest tribute: "Whether he comes back to us or not, he has earned the respect...
Ends: Leopold Ackerman, George Duane, Bill Grosvenor, George Haydock, Al Jaretzki, John Morgan, George Putnam, Roger Tatton...
...Department of Commerce sent Finance Expert Grosvenor Jones; Agriculture sent its Director of Foreign Agricultural Relations, Leslie Wheeler; the Treasury sent its monetary expert, close-mouthed Harry White. State Department technicians included young Laurence Duggan, who became chief of the Division of American Republics when only 30. But the mission was full of seasoned oldsters like 54-year-old William Dawson, Ambassador to Panama; 57-year-old Legal Expert Green Hackworth...
Juliana and her children, who had preceded the Queen, departed for the west of England, while Prince Bernhard returned to fight fellow Germans in Zeeland. The Dutch Ministers took up residence at London's Grosvenor House...