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...only Conservative committee members and two onetime Lord Mayors, but Laborites like Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes (onetime Home Secretary), John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery, the Earl of Lytton, Viscount Sankey, Lord Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while the world approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moral Rearmament | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies. But his principal guide into the 5th Century Celtic twilight was surviving local legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wit's Saint | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...George, who is writing his memoirs and is the object of much sympathy in fashionable Mayfair, then blurred the sharp outlines of the "slap at Hitler" by going off to week-end with the Fuhrer's greatest friend in England, the Most Hon. The Marquess of Londonderry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: New Subject | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India and Burma announced that the Government has now acquired a huge secret store of raw materials as a war preparedness measure, in addition to the stocks of wheat, sugar and whale oil disclosed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon three weeks ago. "We do a great many things unknown to the public," confided the Marquess to his peers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jun. 6, 1938 | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Publicity-hating, 56-year-old John Crichton-Stuart, fourth Marquess of Bute, was quietly sunning himself last week in Morocco. In smoky Cardiff, Wales, an anxious City Council was worried over the rich noble lord's latest business deal. Announcement had just been made that Lord Bute-a collector of castles, the largest individual coal royalty owner in Britain, descendant of the 14th-Century Scottish King Robert III, possessor of 14 titles-was disposing of half of Cardiff's real estate to an unidentified London syndicate. Reported to involve from $100,000,000 down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Castle Collector | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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