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Daughter Ishbel decided to buy and run the 300-year-old Plow Inn hard by the official country home of the Prime Minister, Chequers-a piece of Scottish shrewdness which practically ensures her a steady clientele of statesmen just below the grade of those invited to sleep or eat at Chequers, but who must go there and will be delighted to patronize Boniface Ishbel...
...Before his return to Washington Franklin Roosevelt, Shriner and 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, had promised to attend the Masonic ceremony at which two of his sons, James and Franklin Jr., were to become 3rd degree Masons. Accompanied by his mother, the President entered a car at Hyde Park and started for Manhattan under heavy escort. Instead of driving at the usual 50 m.p.h. clip, the motorcade never once exceeded 30 m.p.h. The 75-mile trip took nearly three hours. At the edge of New York City, 350 police took over from State Troopers. Behind 15 motorcycle policemen...
...expense money for his triumphal return to Athens, and at once there was trouble. Seemingly the Greek Dictator did not realize how English George II has become in all these years, making himself at home to the point of picking his teeth while standing around with Queen Mary and Scottish aristocrats (see cut p. 21). Tough, dynamic General Kondylis is a great admirer of Benito Mussolini and has thought of himself as ruling Greece with a mere fop on the Throne. George II is, however, a first cousin once removed from George V and no fool, though perfectly willing...
...Rolls-Royce. When the King and Queen invited Lady Alice to Balmoral, after the announcement of her engagement, she and her mother, the Duchess of Buccleuch, traveled the 200-odd miles from Selkirk in this car, and Lady Alice relieved the chauffeur at the wheel when they reached the Scottish Highlands. This Rolls-Royce belongs to Lady Alice's eldest brother, the Earl of Dalkeith...
...organizer of the Foreign Office's propaganda bureau during the World War; writer of a World War history in serial form which patriotic parents still give children in the United Kingdom; Director of Information under Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1917-18); M. P. since 1927 for the Scottish Universities; twice (1933 & 1934) Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland; 32-time novelist and lifelong apologist for War, the meat of many of his romances. Writing weightily upon the great Tolstoy's philosophy of Peace, Jack Buchan roundly postulated: "War, too, has its idealism...