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Died. Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa, 90, Scottish shipbuilder and landowner; in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1930 the Marquess bought St. Kilda's Island, one of the Hebrides, ordered the inhabitants to evacuate it, said he would never again permit it to be settled because of its barrenness...
Died. Sir George Louis Victor Henry Sergius Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, 45, brother of Lord Louis Mountbatten and cousin of the late King George V of England; after long illness resulting from a fractured thigh; in London...
...Marquess of Londonderry, who last autumn persuaded the Prime Minister to send another of their group, Lord Halifax, to talk Rapprochement directly with Adolf Hitler (TIME, Nov. 29, et seq.). How far this attitude of the Times had gone was pointed up last week when London's liberal New Statesman and Nation intimated that it had caught the Times off base...
Lord Allen of Hurtwood, a National Laborite; the Marquess of Crewe, Liberal; and Lord Plymouth, Conservative, were among peers who joined Lord Samuel in publicly resisting the temptation to take a negative view of Nazi demands and ambitions. However, Lord Allen plaintively admitted that Britain "cannot hand out colonies like cards in a game of 'beg of my neighbor...
...Church of England is today the largest recipient of royalties from British coal, draws some $1,850,000 yearly, while the Duke of Hamilton gets $565,000 and the Marquess of Bute $545,000. The Church is not expected to protest as Conservative Socialism cuts its revenues, wisely figuring that, if it gets as much as Mr. Chamberlain wants to give, it should in these times thank...