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...assembled potentates, sitting on leather benches under coats of arms emblazoned on the Chamber's paneled walls, the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, who is very pally with the princes on social occasions, told them to: 1) reform their governments; 2) stay at home to rule instead of spending eight months of the year, as many do, in Cannes, Biarritz, Paris; 3) stop spending revenues on their own pleasures. Britain had been scared into this unprecedented dressing down by the success of Mohandas Gandhi's recent fast to force reforms in the state of Rajkot (TIME, March...
Nazi Germany has had no stancher friend in England than the tall, handsome 60-year-old Marquess of Londonderry, who owns vast estates which make him one of Britain's wealthiest autocrats. In Germany Lord Londonderry has made personal friends with Führer Adolf Hitler. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Aviation Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...Party. As entertainer in chief to Conservative Governments, he holds brilliant gatherings of lords, ladies, ministers and diplomats which have dazzled many a fiery Laborite. He has been a potent behind-the-scenes figure in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing the dictators. Last September the Marquess bobbed up at Munich at just the time Friend Chamberlain was arranging for Friend Hitler the big Czecho-Slovak handout. Even after Munich Lord Londonderry advocated a deal on colonies further to appease Nazi Germany...
...sprightly Irish Marquess of Donegall, who writes a London gossip column, this week vouched that Prime Minister Lord Craigavon had told him: "We have learned in Northern Ireland to place no value whatever in Mr. de Valera's promises or guarantees. They are valueless in Ulster. We in Ulster feel it is time to put an end to Mr. de Valera's activities. . . . Under no circumstances whatever will we listen to the rattling of the sabre or, for that matter, to the cooing of the dove where the integrity of Ulster is concerned. . . . Any attempt to meet...
Married. Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 26, youngest son of Scotland's Premier Peer, like his eldest brother Douglas, Marquess of Clydesdale, a famed amateur boxer, airplane pilot, mountaineer; and 23-year-old Prunella ("Perfect Girl") Stack, head of Great Britain's Women's League of Health and Beauty; in Glasgow, Scotland...