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...traditional Tory reluctance to advertise grievances, mingled with the Tories' wholesome respect and fear of the Old Man, had kept the murmuring away from Churchill himself. Those who murmured most agreed that among the Tories probably only the 58-year-old Marquess of Salisbury* has the courage and authority to tell the Grand Old Man that perhaps he should step down-or at least surrender some authority. And Salisbury, who is Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, has shown no signs that he wants to tell Churchill any such thing...
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903), was first named by Disraeli, headed the Foreign Office four times (15 years). He shrewdly played Russia, Turkey and the Balkan countries off against one another, kept peace in Europe. After Bismarck's retirement (1890), Salisbury was the most influential statesman in Europe. He made the French drop their claim to Egypt, and (as Prime Minister) brought the Boer War to an end. Salisbury was an intellectual, a wit, a student of theology and science, and a tolerant Conservative: "There is much," he said, "which it is highly undesirable...
...chairman of the Royal Commission which last year gave Canada a master plan for cultural development (TIME, June 18). "We are the more Canadian for being British," Massey once wrote. At times, his icy dignity and faultless manners have amazed even the English. Lord Cranborne, now the Marquess of Salisbury and Winston Churchill's Lord Privy Seal, once observed "Fine chap, Vincent, but he does make one feel a bit of a savage." Massey unbends rarely, although close friends who have seen him at charades rate him a better natural actor than his younger brother Raymond, long...
Died. Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, 64, Viceroy of India for a record 6½ years (1936-43); of coronary thrombosis while shooting game on his estate near South Queensferry, Scotland. An old-fashioned peer who believed that the aristocracy has responsibilities as well as privileges, Lord Linlithgow distinguished himself as a soldier (commander of a Royal Scots battalion in World War I), politician (deputy chairman of Scotland's Conservative Party), businessman (chairman of Midland Bank) and educator (Chancellor of Edinburgh University). As Viceroy of India, he faced with frosty courage his double troubles of constitutional...
Married. The Marquess of Blandford ("Sonny"), 25, heir to the dukedom of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace and about $5,600,000, first beau of Princess Margaret; and Susan Hornby, 22, wealthy socialite; in London (see NEWS IN PICTURES...