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...Hon. Robert Anthony Eden served in World War I as a captain, was decorated for valor (Military Cross), came out a Brigade Major, remained a major in the Territorials. In the Cabinet and out his chief characteristics were his impeccable clothes and his championship of meeting force with force. Early last week, just before World War II seemed sure, Major Eden put on his King's Royal Rifle Corps uniform, posed in front of a tent (see cut), hurried off to his battalion guarding London's East End docks. But before Great Britain fired its first shot...
...longest name on the British Navy list is that of Admiral the Hon. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. His friends call him "Old Plunk." In 1914, when he was a young Commander, he accompanied Rear-Admiral (later Admiral of the Fleet, Earl) Beatty on a military mission to the late Tsar Nicholas II-as a step in desperate preparation for World War I, which broke out a few weeks later. Last week, now one of Britain's wisest naval strategists, he set out for Moscow again-in a desperate effort to stave off World...
...another Tory M.P., is distantly related to him-the Viscount's father married Lord Balniel's wife's cousin's aunt-as are at least four more Tory M.P.s-Major Oscar Guest, Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, their nephew, Ivor and Minister of Transport Captain the Rt. Hon. David Euan Wallace...
...well as of an African railway. Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, Viscount Wimborne's brother, is a director of the $75,000,000 Guest, Keen & Nettlefold's iron, steel and coal company, of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries with a capacity of 20,000,000 tons annually. The Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery is a director of Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., famed British warship-builders, is married to a sister of Viscount Greenwood, another of whose sisters married Viscount Wimborne's nephew...
Beer. Eleven Tory M.P.s are directors of breweries, but looming over them all is Ind Coope & Allsopp's Chairman Colonel the Rt. Hon. Sir George Courthope, member for Rye for 33 years...