Word: hughenden
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...Hughenden, Buckingham, England...
...busy-dizzy week-end entertaining the entire U. S. delegation at his official country place, Chequers Court, rushing them on a sightseeing tour round Buckinghamshire. Delegates and prime minister visited Milton's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles; the graves of William Penn and Edmund ("on conciliation with America") Burke; Hughenden. country home of the great Jew Benjamin Disraeli. Said U. S. Secretary of State Stimson: "One of the most interesting days of my life. ... To me all this is sacred ground...
...late Lord Beaconsfield's residence at Hughenden is now occupied by an Australian millionaire named Wilson, whose eldest son is at Eton School. It so happened that Garelon Wilson was among the Eton boys who interfered with the man MacLean when he attempted a few weeks ago to shoot the Queen at Windsor station, and the further interesting fact is made public that he punched the miscreant with his umbrella...
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