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Broken Bonds. The Archbishop's answer split Macmillan's government down the middle. Ted Heath, chief Government Whip in the House of Commons, flatly warned the Cabinet that he could not guarantee the support of Tory right-wingers if Makarios were released on these terms. The Marquess of Salisbury, 63-year-old scion of the Cecil family, who have advised England's monarchs since the days of the first Queen Elizabeth, was even more adamant. Inflexibly, the tough-minded elder statesman pointed out that Makarios had "deliberately refrained" from meeting Britain's conditions for his release...
...progress: today there are approximately 450,000 Jews in the British Isles (about .88% of the total population) who worship in 450 established synagogues; 13 Jewish peers sit in the House of Lords and 19 Jews in the House of Commons; two hold high government jobs-the Marquess of Reading is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Baron Mancroft is Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs. Of the 110,000 British Jews who served in the armed forces during World Wars I and II, 12,000 were killed and eight won the Victoria Cross...
Died. Mary Louise, 80, Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry, daughter of a Cardiff fishmonger, who twice scandalized English society: in 1918 when she married the tenth Marquess of Queensberry and in 1920 when, after the death of her husband, she went to work in the fish shop that she inherited on St. Mary's, Street, Cardiff, Wales; in Cardiff...
...years, conservative, sporting George Horatio Charles Cholmondeley (rhymes with glumly), fifth Marquess of Cholmondeley and Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, has sat silent in Britain's House of Lords. Last week, in the face of a growing national menace, he could maintain his peace no longer. "At long last," the 72-year-old Lord told his peers, "I have been brought to my feet by the wish to do something about the rabbit." Rabbits, his lordship insisted, must be exterminated. However, he said, "the only way a rabbit can meet a decent death is to come...
...habitually read only the Times and listen to the BBC would not even have guessed at the romance until three weeks ago. Now the great weight of sedate judgment was making itself felt: the views of the Archbishop of Canterbury, of such powerful leaders of Conservative thought as the Marquess of Salisbury, and of the cautious, conservative and pious segment of nonconformist believers throughout the land. In the wake of this slow gathering of substantial opinion, many a lighter-hearted Briton was forced to forget the sentiment and take stock of the significance of Margaret's apparently firm intention...