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Died. Viscount Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 71, Britain's Wartime Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; of heart disease after long illness; at Fallodon, Christen Bank, Northumberland. He was Foreign Secretary longer (1905-16) than any other man, was instrumental in shaping the policy which kept England friendly to France, hostile to Germany. In June 1914 he sought desperately to avert the World War, as long as possible delayed sending to Germany the ultimatum on Belgian neutrality which preceded England's declaration of war. For this he was blamed by Englishmen who felt that...
...Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodan, 71, Britain's Wartime Foreign Secretary, gravely, of heart disease, in Christen Bank, Northumberland; California's Governor James Rolph Jr., of congestion of the lungs and high fever, in San Francisco; Betty Compton Walker, of colitis, in Evian-les-Bains, France; Actress Tallulah Bankhead, of acute abdominal trouble, in Manhattan; Valerie Marguerite Germonpres von Stroheim, third wife of Film Director Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Nordenwall von Stroheim, of burns about the head and shoulders and seared lungs when a hair-drying machine in a beauty shop ignited, in Hollywood...
...between the pound and the dollar quickly narrowed. To many a Londoner the President's action looked like an attempt to horsewhip Britain into line for some sort of currency agreement. Rapping the President's action as "a deliberate stroke of policy." the Duke of Northumberland's Morning Post warned against a "disorderly race of currency depreciation." The angriest shriek came from the Financial News: "Wilful sabotage could not go much further. . . . The whole business has been deliberately planned in cold blood as a piece of diplomatic blackmail...
...next series includes coins of the post-conquest period before 1272. Most of the rulers of this period are historically important. The most noteworthy coin of this series is that of Prince Henry, the Earl of Northumberland, great grandson of the Duncan who played so prominent a part in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Coins of this prince are extremely rare...
Died. Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, 50, grandson of the 8th Duke of Argyll, a diehard Conservative in the House of Lords, part owner of the London Morning Post, after long illness; in London...