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...afternoon a crow perched over the State Department entrance reserved for diplomats. As Great Britain's Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian, strode in, the crow cawed. A little crowd of onlookers laughed. Up the steps, through the door walked tall, tanned Hans Thomsen of Germany. Caw, caw, went the crow. Henrik de Kauffmann followed later. Caw, caw. Embattled Norway's Mr. de Morgenstierne, then Sweden's Wollmar Filip Bostrom came and went. Caw, caw. The superstitious crowd no longer laughed...
Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, 25, better known by her maiden name, Prunella Stack, best known as Britain's Perfect Woman because she heads Women's League of Health & Beauty (founded by her mother), announced in London that she and her husband, the boxing Marquess of Clydesdale, hope for a perfect baby in June. Said she: "I am keeping myself fit for the event...
Upon learning that the Royal Air Force had bombed Sylt, the Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the U. S., exclaimed: "Fine work. We've been doing too much talking. Now we're socking them in the nose...
...will certainly remember that in World War I the leading roles were legitimately played by Foch, Ludendorff, Hindenburg, Haig, Pershing-whereas today no Allied general has had a chance. Socially the new War Secretary is somewhat overshadowed by his clever and beauteous wife. Lady Maureen Stanley, daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry who used to be perhaps the chief British exponent of appeasing Germany but swung violently around after the rape of Bohemia last spring...
...Chicago last week with a row of medals on his chest, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the U. S., faced the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, including bemedaled Charles Gates Dawes, who did tit for tat at the Court of St. James's. Lord Lothian in his matter-of-fact way gave what he called an honest account of what Britons "think and hope and fear" about the war. He told his U. S. audience that the British Government was not "trying to drag you into this war," but that Britain did look forward...