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Last June Germany's round-faced and cheerful Ambassador-at-Large Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, onetime salesman of "German Champagne," blandly appeared in London and showed around the smart salons of Mayfair what he said was a list of British subjects any one of whom Adolf Hitler would prefer...
In Whitehall this was considered double-barreled insolence on the part of Herr von Ribbentrop, for Sir Eric Phipps is the brother-in-law of the Permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, brilliant Sir Robert ("Van") Vansittart. Recently Sir Robert went on vacation to Berlin (TIME, Aug. 10). Few...
"Van" has a pretty taste in whiskey and a deft hand at intrigue, which won him his Whitehall nickname of "Machiavelli-and-soda." Sir Robert's usual professional touch was evident last week when Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, discovered that his wife must pass a little...
Last week a hot sun at Hurlingham blazed on the tenth subsequent U. S. v. England polo game, second in the fifth post-War series. In the first game fortnight ago, hard-riding Hesketh Hughes had led England to glorious defeat, 9 goals to 10. Last week Hughes scored the...
In learning to play like U. S. poloists, England's poloists have at least been practical. Two of their ablest Internationalists, Eric Tyrrell-Martin and Gerald Balding, have spent large portions of the last three years at Meadow Brook, Palm Beach and Del Monte. Poloist Balding learned his lesson...