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...front, there was the most representative Anglo-American audience ever gathered under one roof in Britain. Impeccable Anthony Eden was there, and Mr. & Mrs. Clement Atlee. Viscount Camrose received in the royal box, along with Viscount Trenchard, president of the American & British Commonwealth Association. Viscount and Viscountess Simon came in, also Sir Andrew and Lady Cunningham, Sir Charles and Lady Portal, Sir Alan and Lady Brooke. The U.S. was represented by Ambassador John G. Winant, and its soldiery...
...Beaver's agitation-which his friend Winston Churchill terms "a process of emphatic stimulation"-was not as significant as its reception. Lord Trenchard criticized Lord Beaverbrook for arousing the British people, who could not be told the true facts just now. The Earl of Listowel accused the Beaver of doing "a positive disservice to the country" by bringing the matter up at this juncture. Viscount Simon said that the discussion was "absolutely dangerous," called the term second front a "catchpenny phrase," based on ill-informed clamor...
Tough and wiry, he never looks quite well. In the blazer which he puts on to avoid the saluting problem when he drifts around to a cricket match at Cairo's Gezira Club, he looks something like a pale, thin gremlin. His appearance worries his friends. Lord Trenchard, Marshal of the whole R.A.F., on a visit to Middle East headquarters kept asking him: "Are you all right, Arthur...
Died. Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 78, onetime New Jersey Supreme Court Justice; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A hater of capital punishment, he nevertheless sentenced Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for the Lindbergh kidnapping...
After 35 years as a member of New Jersey's Supreme Court, Justice Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 77, who presided with memorably magisterial dignity over the turbulent trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, retired, saying: "Well, I figure I'm entitled to quit...