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Engaged. The Hon. Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, 26, niece of Queen Elizabeth of England; to Kenneth Harington, 27-year-old British socialite; for the second time; in London. Because "love in a cottage" would not be good enough for the Hon. Cecilia, Harington, then a junior assistant in the diplomatic corps, suddenly broke off their first engagement in 1937. Then he went to work for a metal corporation...
...EDEN, RT. HON. (ROBERT) ANTHONY, P.O. 1934; M.C., J.P., D.C.L. Oxford, 1936 and Durham, 1937; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs since 1935; M.P. (C.) Warwick and Leamington since 1923; Trustee of National Gallery since 1935; 2nd surv. s. of late Sir William Eden, 7th and 5th Bart.; b. 12 June 1897; m. 1923, Beatrice Helen, d. of Hon. Sir Gervase Beckett, 1st Bart.; two s. Educ.: Eton, Christ Church, Oxford; B.A. First Class Honours (Oriental languages), 1922. Formerly Captain King's Royal Rifle Corps; served World War, 1915-19, with his regiment, and as G.S.O.3, and as Brigade...
...Conservative, pro-Chamberlain candidate was the Hon. Quintin McGarel Hogg, 31, making his political debut. Son & heir of the Lord President of the Council, Viscount Hailsham (who served as Acting Prime Minister briefly in 1928), Mr. Hogg is rated one of the most brilliant young lawyers in London. Whether the 30,000 assorted voters of the city of Oxford would take to him and to Munich in preference to The Master and his League of Nations line was an exciting question...
Cabinet Shifts. Viscount Hailsham gave out some time ago that once his son the Hon. Quintin Hogg was elected he would retire from public office. This week Lord Hailsham was succeeded as Lord President of the Council by Viscount Runciman as a "reward" for the Mediator's unsuccessful labors in Czechoslovakia. It was typical of ponderous British politics that not until last week did Neville Chamberlain name a successor to First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper, who resigned just after Munich because he could not swallow it. High-spirited young Duff Cooper was succeeded by the completely...
...Hon, Winston Spencer Churchill, a Cabinet Minister at 34, writer, painter, orator, jack-of-all-talents, is an unfortunate man. Too brilliant a politician to become a first-rate writer, he has been too brilliant a writer, in a country which puts a premium on imposing mediocrity, to become Prime Minister...