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...Whitehall, meanwhile, one of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's fashionable young men had invented a quip which was soon being drawled in the salons of Mayfair: "It seems the American President has delivered a new Sermon on the Mount-Mount Blank." Much too God-fearing to join in such British ruling class levity, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at once took action to fill in what His Majesty's Government regarded as the most vital part of the Chicago speech- its blanks. The British Embassy in Washington was instructed to ask exactly what the President wants...
...William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford of the Church League for Industrial Democracy, happy to see small Mayfair Theatre crowded with 500 or more listeners to liberal and radical speeches, had nothing but goodwill for New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning who had protested mentioning the C. L. I. D. on the official convention program. Never before had the group attracted more than 100 or so Episcopalians to its meetings. But since Episcopalians are prone to be tolerant and easygoing, they presumably were not affected by what Norman Thomas and others told them...
Henry Cotton has the clothes and polish of a Mayfair blade, the build and complexion of a matador. Most serious of British professionals, he is nervous and temperamental. He offends associates by his indifference to P. G. A. edicts and his frank money-making zeal. On the course he is apt to tear up his card when his game slips, explode over camera clicks and yelping dogs. Slightly stoop-shouldered, he flouts form by bending his left arm at the start of his stroke. Otherwise, as last week's victory suggested, his style is as studied as his temper...
...Principal King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston. While reading a lecture on ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits of how Edward is supposed to have been a trial to his mother, and Sir Gerald was only serving up the sort of dish scores of swank Britons pass around their teatables. "Indeed it is a fact," sniffed the Garter King of Arms, with stinging implication, "that...
Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, a diplomat of the old regime and no Nazi hothead, who was coming to London last week. The pro-German clique in Mayfair was purring. Anthony Eden had plucked up courage to ignore wholly unproved German charges that a Leftist Spanish torpedo or submarine had "grazed and dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration...