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King George VI made a symbolic change that many a common soldier was also enjoying: he walked abroad in civvies (lounge model, pin-striped blue...
...Secretary of State for India and Burma, the Right Honorable Frederick W. Pethick-Lawrence, 73. Once a militant suffragist, Minister Pethick-Lawrence took his wife's name (Pethick), went to jail with her. Last week King George VI made him a baron. Minister of Health Bevan once referred to the new baron as "that crusty old Tory who still sticks in the Labor Party...
...Canadian named for the job. They thought that Canada's sovereignty would thus be more clearly demonstrated. Some of the British-born appointees, they thought, had been oppressively overstuffed. Others, particularly the more Anglophile Canadians, felt that another of royal blood should succeed Athlone, who is King George VI's uncle. Such a selection would not weaken the link with the British Crown...
Next spring, the 17th Governor General of Canada since Confederation, his wife (the former Lady Margaret Diana Bingham) and three children will move into Rideau Hall, the spacious Governor General's residence at Rockcliffe, a suburb of Ottawa. He will represent King George VI in Canada, and like the King, will act only on the advice of the Government. He will be expected to remain aloof from politics. Quiet, self-effacing Field Marshal Alexander was reported to be the choice of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...people, lately special assistant to U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant; and R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Aidan Crawley, 37, athletic Oxfordian who was elected to Britain's new Labor Parliament, son of the Rev. Canon A. S. Crawley, chaplain to King George VI; both for the first time; in London...