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...rushing to the rescue of Henry Wallace, told the Senate that Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge" of meeting Stalin and Churchill. London correspondents cabled about a mysterious high U.S. visitor; two days later Britain's Official Court Calendar revealed that Harry Hopkins had conferred with King George VI. Hopkins went on from there, talked freely to newsmen in Paris and Rome (TIME...
Before a Lyons court stood the most famous collaborationist yet brought to trial in France-bearded, brilliant Charles Maurras, political anachronism, polemicist, poet, member of the French Academy, ex-editor of L'Action Française, and a royalist more royalist than France's Pretender, Henri VI (the exiled Henri of Bourbon-Orleans, Count of Paris). The little old man was 76 and stone deaf. All charges and questions had to be given him in writing...
...Gerald David Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 20, nephew of Britain's George VI, was praised by his regimental sergeant major as a democratic, model soldier. There was only one complaint against Private Lascelles: his superiors could not persuade him to make the usual $4-a-week allotment to his mother, the Princess Royal...
Unobtrusive among the names of 858 other Canadians commended in King George VI's New Year's Honors List was that of a quiet, coolheaded civilian who had helped save Halifax from what might have been one of the world's worst disasters. His name was John Brackett. His job: harbor pilot. His citation: M.B.E. (for Member of the Order of the British Empire). Censorship had long suppressed the full story of what 54-year-old Pilot Brackett had done. Now the censorship was lifted...
Gladstone and Victoria to Winston Churchill and Victoria's great-grandson, George VI, L.G. had fashioned a lot of English history. He had risen from a lower plane than most to do it. He could remember when Britain's aristocracy, calling at Downing Street, would watch to see if he drank his tea as a gentleman should...