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...Your account of the Premier of Japan's dinner party in your issue of July 31, is absurdly incorrect. The account gives a lurid picture of nervous excitement here in Tokyo which we who live here do not recognize. "After grim days of extreme alarm . . . tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party." But the "grim alarm" and the "tension" were not enough to keep the Premier and Viscountess Saito from coming unconcernedly to my humble home the week before to drink coffee and eat doughnuts with a crowd of guests. The dinner party you describe...
Your assertion that the D.S.O. (re: article on Duke of Atholl in Aug. 14 issue) is Britain's No. 1 war decoration is incorrect. Every military and naval man knows that the Victoria Cross holds first place in war decorations in the British Empire if not in the world...
Through close personal contact with this industry and on the basis of 1930 census reports, I know that as far as Georgia cotton mills are concerned, the charge is incorrect and not supported by the facts...
...Your readers, learning that the present Duke is still a persistent foxhunter at the age of 84, and noting the aura of British vigor apparent in your portrait of him, may guess that he comes of a family notable solely for its blustering militance. Such a guess would be incorrect. Garret Wellesley, Earl of Mornington and father of the first Wellington, had tastes which were singular indeed in the begetter of an Iron Duke. It is known to relatively few Americans, save such insatiable antiquaries as myself, that the Earl of Mornington was addicted to playing violin sonatas while seated...
...connection with the D. A. R. Father Blakeley, having neither ancestors nor job, moons disagreeably about the house. Sister Phyllis takes up with a gangling radio crooner (Ross Alexander), marries him during a night out. Brother Clay, Yale sophomore, discovers to his sorrow that the old song was entirely incorrect. He gets a New Haven waitress in trouble...