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They pictured British Secretary for War Minister Viscount Hailsham pacing up & down his suite in the Hotel Chateau Laurier when his baggage failed to arrive. They imagined him exclaiming, "My Kingdom for a frockcoat and topper...
From New Zealand's not quite so handsome Chief Delegate Joseph Gordon Coates a similar blast was momentarily expected. But with the entire Conference in a state of preparatory flux the Mother Country quietly managed to keep her end up. She wangled her Secretary for War, Viscount Hailsham (famed when he was Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg), into chairmanship of the Conference's first and most important working group: the Committee on Empire Trade Promotion...
...sons were the guests of Father Winston Churchill at a coming-of-age dinner to Son Randolph Churchill in London's Socialite Claridges Hotel. Newspaper Peers Beaverbrook, Rothermere and Camrose all brought their sons as did Admiral Earl Beatty, Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England's late and perhaps greatest Lord...
Died, Edward Marjoribanks, 32, able young Member of Parliament, writer (Life of Sir Edward Marshall-Hall); by his own hand (pistol); in the country home of his stepfather. Secretary of State for War Viscount Hailsham, in Sussex. England. Apparent reason: overwork. He was known to the U. S. in 1922 when, as president of the Oxford Union, he led Oxford debaters against many a potent U. S. college team...
...royal family (addicted to Bovril since Edward VII) but whose name is discreetly withheld. Chairman of the Board is Lord Luke of Pavenham, K. B. E., whose grandfather was Grocer John Johnston. Fellow members are His Grace the Duke of Atholl and that celebrated Tory jurist, Viscount Hailsham, P. C., onetime Lord Chancellor and present Minister of War. If it were conceivable that such names as these needed corroboration to inspire confidence they have had the advantage of being supported by such patriotic and patrician men of science as Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett, who was director general...