Word: killearn
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...Graham Lampson, just back from France, in London's drafty Victoria Station one day last week. "Half a hundredweight [56 Ibs.] of coal," she replied. And there it was, in her immaculate suitcase, each lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Mrs. Lampson, daughter-in-law of Baron Killearn, first British Ambassador to Egypt, explained that French friends, concerned over Britain's critical fuel shortage, had given it to her so she could keep warm...
Meanwhile British diplomacy, first in the person of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (now Lord Inverchapel), who was succeeded by Lord Killearn, continued its efforts to bring the Dutch and the Indonesians together. Former Dutch Premier Willem Schermerhorn, who had blamed van Mook for dealing with collaborators, came out to Java and soon found himself discussing the situation over Scotch & soda with Soekarno, whose Mohammedanism is not so rigid that he scorns a drink...
...pact now before the Dutch States-General was drafted last month at Linggadjati. There, with Lord Killearn in the chair, Schermerhorn, van Mook and Soekarno (Sjahrir had one of his frequent colds) haggled out an agreement. The issue finally boiled down to a sentence in Article 2 which referred to Indonesia as a "free democratic state." Soekarno's Economics Minister, 38-year-old A. K. Gani (who once acted in a Batavian-made movie True Love), objected: "That word 'free' is not enough. It should be 'sovereign.' " Van Mook turned to Soekarno: "Will you accept...
...amid the chatter of the coffeehouses. King and Premier had worked in uneasy partnership for two and a half years. Four months ago the King banned Nahas Pasha from the palace for a fortnight, was induced to receive him again only on the intercession of British Ambassador Lord Killearn. This time Britain did not intercede. To the Abdine Palace to form a new Government the King summoned portly Achmed Maher Pasha, President of the Chamber of Deputies, whose political credo is: Egypt's destiny is linked with Britain...
...show horses: Mrs. Florence F. Dibble's veteran Flowing Gold, winner in the class for large saddle horses; Mrs. John Hay Whitney's string of dappled grey hunters; Mrs. William C. Cox's bay gelding hackney pony Cassilis Mighty's Mite, who won the Killearn Farm Challenge Trophy; Mrs. Paul Moore's famed Seaton Pippin, world's champion hackney. Interest in the jumpers centered this year on the Irish Free State's string. Outstanding jumper from Ireland was Shannon Power, a 5-year-old chestnut gelding, winner of the $1,000 International Military...
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