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Soviet Russia was flattered and amused that Britain was courting her. Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky even had lunch at the London house of Lady Astor, hostess of the famed appeasement-favoring Cliveden Set. But Russia let it be known that since Russia and Germany have no common borders, the Soviet signature was useless without Poland's, and suggested an anti-Nazi conference. This was apparently too near to definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign...
...seat, the last few breaths of life seemed to wheeze slowly in and out of his lungs. He had aged tremendously. His hands shook, and even when he spoke to the conductor, his voice whispered from a far away corner. It was no wonder that the N.Y., N.H. & H. hostess in her gray and red uniform led him forth from his seat like the Pied Piper with the magic words: "Grill Car in the rear...
Last week Detroit lost, and Copenhagen was about to gain a rare and spectacular British diplomatic hostess. Leslie C. Hughes-Hallett, British consul in Detroit, sailed from Manhattan to become consul general at Copenhagen. Of greater interest was the fact that Consul Hughes-Hallett was taking along his blue-eyed, dark-haired wife, Violet Holmes-Tidy Hughes-Hallett. She likes snakes and rats...
...child in India, Hostess Hughes-Hallett was taught by her father, a British Army officer, to love all animals and especially those that other people despised. When she was three, Father Holmes-Tidy got her used to snakes by keeping a 14-foot python as a house pet. Live snakes are not always available to city dwellers, and when the Hughes-Halletts first moved to Detroit, Mrs. Hughes-Hallett had a hard time getting enough pets. She solved the problem by calling up the Police Department and requesting that any snakes they found be turned over to her. Commented indulgent...
Cardinal Pacelli visited the U. S. "personally and privately" in autumn, 1936. The late Mrs. Nicholas Brady (later Macaulay) was his hostess at Manhasset, L. I. He lunched with the Roosevelts at Hyde Park, addressed the National Press Club in Washington, went to Philadelphia and Boston, toured by air as far west as San Francisco. First Pope in history to have personal knowledge of the U. S., Pius XII has cousins in Flushing and Jordan...