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...Washington, Air Marshal Lord Tedder, 60, deputy to Eisenhower in SHAEF and Britain's most famed airman, announced his resignation as Britain's representative on the standing military committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. On returning to England, he will take up new, nonmilitary duties as vice chairman of the governors of BBC and chancellor of Cambridge University...
...Molly had drawn up a big guest list. It included Mrs. Hoyt Vandenberg, wife of the Air Force chief (who was off on an inspection tour in Korea); the formidable Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, a doyenne of Washington society; Mrs. Cyrus Ching; Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Biffle; Lord and Lady Tedder-and, of course-Colonel May. A few of the guests were missing, but surveying the crowd, Molly thought it best to move to General Vandenberg's own office...
Around the big (20 feet long) table were gathered the advisers. Among them, on Harry Truman's side, were Secretaries Acheson, Marshall, Snyder, General of the Army Omar Bradley; with Attlee were Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, Field Marshal Slim, Air Force Marshal Tedder. For an hour and 35 minutes, vowing they would come to a "mutual understanding," they laid the groundwork for discussions to come. Intermittently, behind closed doors, they talked for five consecutive days, while the noise of the katydids-planned "leaks" and planted rumors-rose around them...
...approached for Cambridge University to pick a new chancellor to succeed the late Jan Christian Smuts, hardly anybody expected a fuss. The heads of the various colleges were almost unanimously agreed on the man for the strictly honorary job: wiry, brilliant Arthur William, Baron Tedder, marshal of the R.A.F. and onetime deputy supreme commander of the cross-Channel invasion. The actual voting by the university senate (any Cantabrigian with an M.A. is eligible to vote) should have been, as always, a mere formality...
Last week Nehru himself took his old alma mater off the hook. Through the Indian high commissioner in London, he informed his Cantab, backers that he wished his name withdrawn. Without further ado, Lord Tedder's election went through. Airman Tedder got the word from his office in Washington, where he is chairman of the British Joint Services Mission...