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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other preparatory details. Protocol finally determined that Chief Justice Hughes (if well enough to attend) would rank British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay at the President's State dinner, since the King would then represent himself. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, the White Housekeeper, noticed that Their Majesties ate a lot of strawberries in Canada, ordered a supply. Fields, the White House butler, decided to use the new F. D. R. china (white Lenox with cobalt & gold bands). He put polishers on the state service whose gold plating was begun under President Harrison, continued under McKinley, finished under Coolidge...
Gesture. Bigger news was that the British Government, after weeks of dickering at London and Geneva, had virtually said "Yes" to the Soviet terms for a big, ironclad Stop Hitler alliance between Britain, France and Soviet Russia. Soon afterwards in Moscow, able, lively British Ambassador Sir William Seeds went to the Kremlin to present his Government's views to Premier Viacheslav Molotov, also Foreign Commissar since the retirement last month of the veteran Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...Sir William and Comrade Molotov conferred for an hour, at the end of which the Foreign Commissar said he would transmit the British note to his Government, i.e., Joseph Stalin. In Nazi circles, meanwhile, hints were circulated of an impending German, not British, understanding with the Soviets, and there were inspired ghoulish stories that the Communists had proposed to the Nazis a partition of Poland. But while Comrade Stalin maintained an enigmatic silence the British were taking it for granted that the British-French-Russian alliance was in the bag. They even announced that Kliment Voroshilov, top-ranking Soviet General...
Plain, thick-browed, 47-year-old Miss Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod wears her dark hair in a severe bob. She is a daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology...
...Died. Sir Frank Dyson, 71, who, as British Astronomer-Royal in charge of the Greenwich Observatory, was long (1910-33) official keeper of the world's time; on a ship bound for South Africa...