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...recent weeks London reports had Churchill tapping eligibles. Newly appointed Lord Privy Seal Viscount ("Bobbity") Cranborne, a liberal, conscientious Tory and a Cecil, was asked. He declined on "grounds of health." Then rumor had it that Australian Robert G. Casey, currently Resident Minister in Cairo for the British War Cabinet, was approached. Lately came news that Liberal Party Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair was the choice, that Churchill had taken him along on a northern tour to sell him the idea. But Sir Archibald, too, said...
Tall, tweedy, gentle William Waldorf, Viscount Astor, and his Virginia-born wife Nancy last week relinquished Cliveden to the British people. Their home, with its spacious grounds west of London on one of the most beautiful reaches of the Thames, was handed over to the National Trust, custodian of Britain's national property. The Astors retain the right for themselves and their sons after them to occupy the house as long as they wish. As tenants of national property, they will save land and inheritance taxes...
Ever since the Indian Mutiny in 1857 the British Raj had managed to deal with such disturbances. A long line of viceroys, some bad, some as imbued with noble sentiments as Viscount Halifax, professed that British rule was guiding India through evolution to eventual dominionhood in the British Empire. But last week it appeared that evolution had turned into revolution. India held not only jailed prophets but also homemade bombs, pistols and bottles of acid in the hands of terrorists. From the western world the Indians were learning the technique of violence, not the technique of self-government...
Died. Andrew Graham Murray, Viscount Dunedin, 92, famed Scottish justice, intimate adviser of Edward VII and George V; in Edinburgh. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party...
Where Now? The ersatz faith which fostered Munich was replaced in Britain last week by other concepts and credos, equally fervent. Of the people who fostered Munich, some were dead, some repentant, some changed hardly a whit. Viscount Halifax, Chamberlain's now-repentant Foreign Secretary at Munich-time, rushed cheerfully from Birmingham (where he told an audience: "Once the shipping problem has been mastered, the Allied Nations can hold out very solid grounds for confidence") to Cabinet meetings in London, then to holiday on his rolling moors in Yorkshire. Droopy-lidded Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's political valet...