Word: rodd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WHISPERING GALLERY - "An Ex-Diplomat" - Boni & Liveright ($3.00). John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., the London publishers, have withdrawn the book and caused the arrest on a charge of fraud of one Hesketh Pearson who sold them the manuscript and assured them that it is by Sir Rennel Rodd, onetime (1908-1919) British Ambassador to Italy, who has denied writing it. Last week the Manhattan publishers refused to withdraw the U. S. edition which is proving a "best seller...
...noted that the very long list contains such men as Hillaire Belloc, probably the greatest authority on military history in England; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale University, one of the foremost historians of the U. S., H. Pirie Gordon, Foreign Editor of The Times, London; Sir James Ren-nell Rodd, British diplomat of great experience; Andre Tardieu, French statesman of acknowledged gifts...