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...EDEN, RT. HON. (ROBERT) ANTHONY, P.O. 1934; M.C., J.P., D.C.L. Oxford, 1936 and Durham, 1937; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs since 1935; M.P. (C.) Warwick and Leamington since 1923; Trustee of National Gallery since 1935; 2nd surv. s. of late Sir William Eden, 7th and 5th Bart.; b. 12 June 1897; m. 1923, Beatrice Helen, d. of Hon. Sir Gervase Beckett, 1st Bart.; two s. Educ.: Eton, Christ Church, Oxford; B.A. First Class Honours (Oriental languages), 1922. Formerly Captain King's Royal Rifle Corps; served World War, 1915-19, with his regiment, and as G.S.O.3, and as Brigade...
...everyone remembers that "Tony" Eden was one of the few who have ever taken First Class Honors at Oxford in the extremely difficult Oriental Languages. When Queen Victoria yet reigned everyone knew of the celebrated quarrel of obstinate Artist Whistler and obstinate Baronet Sir William Eden over the price of the beautiful painting by Whistler of Mr. Anthony Eden's mother. Today everyone knows that in 1935 a most important British General Election was won by the Conservatives, partly because "the country" believed Anthony Eden was somehow going to make of the League of Nations a shining sword...
Encyclopedia Britannica of the music world is the late Sir George Grove's five-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Every 20 years or so the learned editors of Sir George's brain child rack their teeming brains and bring forth a new edition. Between these monumental foalings there is spawned a smaller fry of musical dictionaries and encyclopedias, offering fresher if skimpier information at more modest prices. For these, the 1938 birth rate has been the highest in years...
...Born. To Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, Great Britain's blackest fascist, and his wife, The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28: a son, their first common child; in London, same day their marriage was revealed (TIME, Dec. 5). Formally announcing the birth in his paper Action, Sir Oswald explained why his marriage had been kept secret: "We leave to financial democracy the custom of a man taking his wife around in public...
...British-American antagonism was growing. War debts, the Ottawa agreement, books like Frank Hanighen's The Secret War for Oil strengthened his conviction. In his book, the U. S. teems with British propagandists and secret agents; the English Speaking Union manipulates U. S. public opinion; and, according to Sir Wilmot Lewis, Mr. Howe sees an Englishman under every...