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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cadogan Gardens. Home then went the Right Honorable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, second Baronet of his line, Privy Councilor, Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India and Honorary Air Commodore of Great Britain, to one of London's most amazing town houses, No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. As gracious Lady Maud Lygon Hoare, a daughter of the Sixth Earl of Beauchamp, has said, "It is full of odds & ends we have picked up," many of them brought from distant lands...
Only in high Tory circles catered to by the London Morning Post was it frankly said that Benito Mussolini might have great difficulty in deciding what clever Sir Samuel actually meant. "It is possible to imagine Mussolini meditating various conclusions from the words used," said the Post, adding with satisfaction, "there is nothing in the speech to suggest that in the last resort England would act alone to maintain the integrity of Ethiopia." But Sir Samuel's speech was not about an English solo but rather about a European concert on behalf of Ethiopia and "when I say collective responsibility...
...frown two enormous busts composed of seven kinds of marble and believed to represent unidentified Arabian characters. Another treasure is the largest piece of Dresden pottery in the world. Dazzling curtains from Baghdad, authentic 18th Century French and Turkish furniture, and a display of solid silver plate bought by Sir Samuel's grandfather a century ago adorn a ménage which the Hoares find cozy...
Neatly sorted into files are newspaper stories and photographs of the Foreign Secretary which he constantly collects, aided by friends all over the world who snip and mail anything they see about "Flying Sam." These remind 55-year-old Sir Samuel that he is an expert fancy skater, that he was Charles Augustus Lindbergh's host in London after the Spirit of St. Louis flight, that he won a socialite tennis championship last year at Dinard, and that he painstakingly answered as Secretary of State for India over 15,000 questions asked him by the Joint Select Committee...
This week the unusually well-informed London Correspondent Augur* insisted that at Geneva last week Sir Samuel Hoare told Premier Laval that "the British Government was ready to admit that the [Anglo-German] naval pact, or rather the method of its conclusion, had been regrettable and would prefer that it had not happened." This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered. The air having been cleared by this revelation, the British and French Governments...