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...House of Lords, the Marquess of Salisbury, present head of the great house of Cecil-spoke memorable words on the West's attitude toward Asian Communism. Said he: "I understand that our recognition of [the Chinese Communist] government has conferred no advantages on our traders, whom it was mainly intended to help . . . The impression is given . . . that India intends to adopt a detached attitude and act as an honest broker between the two parties. My Lords, it is impossible to act as an honest broker between right and wrong...
Duck & Work. It was a treasure to tempt any Scot, and in 1641 the Marquess of Argyll, head of the Clan Campbell, got King Charles to grant him the rights to fish for it. The MacLeans, however, were not giving up that easily. They built a stone fort on the shores overlooking the site of the wreck, and announced their firm intention "to shoot guns, pistols and muskets" at any Argyll diver who attempted to "duck and work" near the sunken wreck. In 1683 Captain William Campbell sailed the frigate Anna of Argyll into the harbor and ordered the divers...
...agreed that the marriage of "Toodie" to David was Washington's biggest wedding of the year. Inside Connecticut Avenue's old greystone National Presbyterian Church, 700 invited guests witnessed the marriage of Mrs. Romaine Dahlgren Pierce Simpson (Manhattan divorcee) to Britain's David Michael Mountbatten, the Marquess of Milford Haven, a second cousin of King George VI. Traffic was held up for blocks around, and the crowd outside treated the newlyweds like movie stars when they left the church. Among the prominent guests: ex-King...
Married. David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, 30; and Socialite Romaine Dahlgren Pierce ("Toodie") Simpson, 26; she for the second time; in Washington (see PEOPLE...
Woven pictures, designed by some of Britain's best modern artists, went on display in a London gallery last week. They were new products of an Edinburgh tapestry-weaving studio founded 40 years ago by the fourth Marquess of Bute. The Marquess' sole purpose in going into the tapestry business: to provide the kind of wall coverings he fancied for his own estates. To keep the company going in spite of death & taxes, the Marquess' descendants were now doing their best to make...