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...Viscount Cranborne (Robert Cecil), Leader of the House of Lords, became Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, a position he held from 1940 to 1942, when he became Lord Privy Seal. Cranborne lives at Cranborne, where he raises roses rare and magnificent, plays a smacking croquet game called "golf," collects Low cartoons (see p. 38), talks good British politics. He resigned with Anthony Eden over Britain's appeasement of Italy in 1938, is impersonally competent...
Died. Valentine Edward Charles ("Val") Browne, 52, the Earl of Kenmare, Viscount Castlerosse, Britain's balloon-shaped Walter Winchell; of heart disease; in Killarney, Eire. Heir to vast Irish estates, he was having a hard time making his luxurious ends meet when Lord Beaverbrook took him up after War I, made him his star gossip in the Sunday Express. A 300-lb., bullet-headed dandy, Val spread out from bar-&-boudoir intelligence to light commentary on international affairs...
...High Church Archbishop's defense last week came Low Church Viscount Caldecote (Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip), England's Lord Chief Justice, a former Lord Chancellor. He noted that the financial arrangement between Dr. Garbett and the ecclesiastical commissioners (authorized by the Church Assembly last March) lets the commissioners foot some of York's official bills. Why not? said the Viscount. He thought the attacks on the Archbishop "ill judged and unfair," found the "perfectly legitimate arrangement . . . would . . . relieve him of considerable personal bookkeeping...
...Quebec to accept the degree of Doctor of Laws from Laval University went lanky Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S. The devout Anglo-Catholic peer found one of the war's fundamental causes in "the continuous erosion" of Christianity in the past century. He noted that every attempt to eradicate Christianity has eventually placed the destroyers in the awkward position of cooking up a substitute. The French invented the Goddess of Reason, the Russians substituted "the abstraction of social collectivity," and - Hitler himself selected the formula of the Nazi faith -"the saving doctrine of the nothingness and insignificance...
...Manhattan last week Juan Terry Trippe, president of Pan American Airways, made a significant speech; in London Viscount Edward George William Tyrwhitt Knollys (rhymes with moles), Governor of Bermuda...