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KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S LETTERS TO JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY, 1913-1922 (701 pp.) -Edited by John Mldd/eton Murry-Knopf...
...Sevan's own wife, Jennie Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Bevan are the only man & wife team in the House of Commons. ¶ In Plymouth, John Jacob Astor, parachutist son of a famed spitfire parliamentarian, Lady Astor, wrested his mother's old Commons seat from Laborite Lucy Annie Middleton by 710 votes. Brother William Waldorf Astor also got elected. Father, a viscount", sits in the House of Lords...
Soon after Katherine Mansfield met John Middleton Murry, she said: "Why not take a room in my flat?" Murry did. It was 1912; he was a bright, broke young man who had just traded Oxford japes for London journalism, and was bent on pedaling away from his lower-middle-class origins as fast as the bicycle of English letters would carry him. Katherine was pedaling too-from her native New Zealand and an unhappy marriage. She had written her first short stories, the haunting, plot-shy evocations of children, moods and places that would eventually rank her close to Chekhov...
...handling of the Kemritz affair touched off a noisy display of anti-occupation feeling in West Germany. The Bundestag (Parliament) spent one whole day wrangling over it, and demanded that the Americans "cease interfering with German justice." The New York Times's Drew Middleton solemnly cabled that "the whole structure of German friendship and sympathy toward Americans . . . has been fractured." It wasn't as bad as that, though a lot of Germans were delighted to see the Americans stuck defending a stool pigeon...
Twenty-eight hours later, Britain's saddened negotiating team boarded a chartered plane and took off for London. Straight from a Scotch & soda going-away party for the negotiators, British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd and Minister George Middleton with their wives-all in evening dress-were on hand to wave goodbye...