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...Onetime Senior Lord of Appeal Lord Dunedin celebrated his goth birthday with cocktails in his Sloane Street home. Guests viewed the film His Lordship took in the Black Forest (Germany) last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Life in England | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...during the last fortnight of my mission to Berlin that it proved impossible at the time to give any consecutive account of them. If I have the honor to do so now ... it is with the hope that such an account may be both of immediate interest to your Lordship and serve a purpose from the point of view of historical accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...tragedy of any dictator is that as he goes on, his entourage steadily and inexorably deteriorates. For lack of freedom of utterance he loses the services of the best men. ... In my report on the events of 1938 I drew your Lordship's special attention to the far and unfortunate results of the Blomberg marriage.* I am more than ever convinced of the major disaster which that-in itself-minor incident involved, owing to the consequent elimination from Herr Hitler's entourage of the more moderate and independent of his advisers. . . . After February of last year Herr Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Principal executives like General Manager Ewart John Robertson run back and forth all day when "The Old Man" is in London. On the rare occasions when his Lordship goes to the Express, Manager Robertson (who met him as a bellboy carrying his bags into a Canadian hotel) has been known to see that all cigaret butts were removed from his path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...hands-across-the-sea is British Press Titan Lord Beaverbrook (born plain William Maxwell Aitken). Last week, when U. S. Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett arrived in London, Lord Beaverbrook's friendly hand had a distinctly ham quality about it. Speaking through his Daily Express and Evening Standard his lordship found Mr. Gannett eminently qualified to be President, handed him the nomination. "In two years, Gannett may be the President of the U. S.," warned the Standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: British Boomlet | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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