Word: knowsley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome nearer to Berlin to achieve a "Feeling of Security." "Mr. Smith." Obviously this week the Western Pact of Adolf Hitler's dreams and schemes was not yet in the bag, but Ambassador von Ribbentrop received the significant British honor of being invited to a house party at Knowsley Hall by the Earl of Derby, great & good friend of King George V & Queen Mary, not hitherto rated pro-German and in British Government circles one of the most influential aristocrats in the Kingdom. Derby took the course of advising British editors that his entertaining of von Ribbentrop...
...teakwood and cream enamel Royal Train parked one night last week on a siding near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat...
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