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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significantly meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, no friend of Il Duce, went to "vacation" on the French Riviera, although Mr. Eden has only just finished enjoying the long English Christmas and New Year holidays. In London foreign policy was thus in full charge of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, a leading figure last year in "The Deal" which sealed the fate of Haile Selassie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935 et seq.). Last week such veteran correspondents as the New York Times P. J. Philip scarcely veiled their overwhelming hunch that the French, Italian and German Ambassadors and Sir Robert were sealing...
...figure in Red Málaga, and she was retained by the Whites as matron of the jail, is black Florence. "Never you mind what is my husband's name," she told correspondents. "My name is Florence and he is a nice Portuguese." "Are you Red, Florence?" "No, sir, I am black and I don't do no dabbling in politics...
...Government are separate. Under a Foreign Office rule, if an official paper is found to contain references to their doings, that paper is destroyed and a new one made and entered. Last week the British Embassy in Washington officially and the U. S. State Department informally denied that Sir Robert Vansittart is Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, affirmed that they do not know...
...Freeport, Me., was named for Sir Andrew Freeport. Freeports in Ohio and Kansas were named for an unremembered Freeport whence came the first settlers. How Freeport, Va. was named is unknown. Freeport, Ill. was named after First Settler William ("Tutty") Baker, who was so lavish with food and shelter to wayfarers that his wife complained: "What is this we have made of our home, a free port?" Freeport, Minn., originally called Oak Station, was renamed after Freeport, Ill. as was Freeport, Mich...
Married. Margaret Gwendolen Mary Drummond, 31. daughter of British Ambassador to Italy Sir Eric Drummond, onetime (1919-33) Secretary of the League of Nations; and John Walker III, 29, of Pittsburgh, assistant director of the American Academy of Rome; in Rome...