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...Cannes, France, last week the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George and the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, both members of the Privy Council of King George VI, called and paid their respects to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Just before the Windsors returned this week to Paris, oldtime Actress Maxine Elliot (who two years ago rented her Hollywoodesque villa at Cannes to King Edward VIII for a holiday with Mrs. Simpson) entertained at dinner Privy Councilors Lloyd George & Churchill and the Duke & Duchess...
...Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and then proceeded from Washington to withdraw his support and wreck that conference, British public opinion was incensed. Soon afterward, however, the British began little by little to be dazzled by the bursting glory of the New Deal. Their own Cabinet, under the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and his budget-balancing Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, began to seem a group of humdrum stick-in-the-muds compared to the spectacular humanism radiating from the White House. During much of the short reign of Edward VIII those British subjects who admired what they considered...
This powerful force the legendary Geoffrey Dawson shares with Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, principal stockholder in the Times Holding Company Ltd. which controls the profitable paper, and John Walter, fifth generation descendant of the Times's founder. Shareholder Astor of the English branch of the Astor family, bought the holdings of the late Viscount Northcliffe 15 years ago. To insure that no unworthy shall gain control of the Times, no transfer of common shares by a living holder to anyone except Owners Astor and Walter can be made without approval from an austere committee whose members...
Married. Winifred Birkin War,. London socialite, divorced wife of Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward, onetime (1917-22) Vice-Chamberlain of the King's Household; to Marquis de Casa Maury, Cuban operator of a Mayfair cinemansion; in London. Mrs. Ward for years was the favorite dancing partner and friend of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales...
...British politics, whether at home or in the Dominions, the Prime Minister springs a general election at a time most propitious for him and his party. Two months ago, Ontario's Premier, the Hon. Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn, self-styled C. I. O.-hater and loud-mouthed critic of President Roosevelt, decided to trust his political fate to the favorable reaction sweeping over his Province as a result of an industrial boom, called for a general election...