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Died. Gordon Hewart, 73, Viscount of Bury, Lord Chief Justice of England from 1922 to 1940; after long illness; in Totteridge, Herefordshire. A rolypoly little man with a high voice, a low opinion of bureaucracy, broad interests, considerable wit, he read Horace before breakfast, spoke in epigrams, was one of England's greatest liberals. A Lancashire draper's son and a newspaperman before he entered the law, he was King's Counsel, an M.P., a Cabinet Minister before becoming Lord Chief Justice. Kindly, diffident in private, he was sometimes blisteringly outspoken on the bench. "The only impartiality...
...night before the first killings took place, Admiral Viscount Saito and Admiral Suzuki attended a large dinner party at the American Embassy, and less than half a day later, both were attacked...
...night before the first killings took place, Admiral Viscount Saito and Admiral Suzuki attended a large dinner party at the American Embassy, and less than half a day later, both were attacked...
...Viscount Knollys (pronounced Noles), Governor of Bermuda, was finally voted the exemption which the Assembly had accorded high-ranking military men. He may now drive an automobile...
...Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, for the culmination of the extraordinarily cautious visit begun three weeks ago. For two hours and 15 minutes Franklin Roosevelt and Anthony Eden talked high diplomacy. They were flanked by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles, Ambassador John G. Winant, British Ambassador Viscount Halifax...