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...character. This note the Minister of the Crown wrote with his own hand. The Ambassador consulted his Counselor and was told of the doctrine that "His Majesty's Government do not wish to be asked" such favors. They could be asked, but the Embassy must not risk a snub, and consequently could not act In these circumstances the U. S. Ambassador wrote back to the British Foreign Secretary to tell him that his British Foreign Office did not wish that Americans be asked to dinner at Buckingham Palace. As the Ambassador and the Minister were friends, they...
...rubies. Mrs. Simpson, who was recently provided with a $750,000 emerald and diamond necklace (TIME, Oct. 12), wore last week only a new set of diamonds. Next morning London society columns omitted Mrs. Simpson but named every other occupant of the Royal Box. This sort of malicious snub recently provoked His Majesty personally to write Mrs. Simpson's name in his Court Circular and thus force the London Times to print it (TIME, Oct. 26), but last week Editor Dawson of the Times appeared to be again baiting his King- Emperor...
...CHURCH HEADS SNUB KING EDWARD...
...Husky, snub-nosed, 19, she started to play golf seven years ago, got instruction from her father and Edward VIII's favorite professional, Archie Compston. Putting - the department of golf in which women are most noticeably inferior to men - is Pam's strong point. She practices it two hours daily, does it better than any other girl golfer in the world...
Until, 56 hours later, when he had dipped the flesh-colored clay in wax, inserted glass eyes and dressed the victim's original hair, which providentially had been recovered near the skull, he had before him the snub-nosed, sullen face of a temperamental Irish girl...