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Late in 1938, while Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax were trying to appease Mussolini, De Man went to see Romains in Paris, told him of a scheme to have a peace conference called by one of the five sovereigns of northern Europe (Belgium's King Leopold, Norway's King Haakon, Sweden's King Gustaf, Denmark's King Christian, The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina). Four of them were to write to the fifth (Leopold) urging him to save the peace of Europe; then Leopold was to appeal to Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler...
...Presidency of the Board of Trade. Into the Board of Trade went handsomely mustached Captain Oliver Lyttelton, who, before the war, was managing director of British Metal Corp. and held enough other directorates-including one with the German Metallgesellschaft A.-G.-to bring in ?20,000 in annual fees. Viscount Caldecote, who as Sir Thomas Inskip did more to prevent changes in the Anglican prayer book than he did to increase colonial plant production, was sidetracked to Lord Chief Justice. Brought in out of the rain was thin-faced, properly cravated Viscount Cranborne, Anthony Eden's "Foreign Office twin...
...London area, had been hit. On British ports had fallen 17,000,000 pounds of bombs, and 700 raids had concentrated on airdromes. The British, for their part, admitted some damage to factories. But they claimed that plants planned by farsighted Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard were just now getting into full production, so that the net loss was nil. Somewhere between the two opposing claims lay the truth...
...General's mansion, should be someone who could tighten the allegiance to the Crown-preferably Royalty. After the death of popular Baron Tweedsmuir, the Duke of Devonshire turned down the job. Last April it was given to Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, who is known to his elder sister. Queen Mary, as "Algie." His wife is Princess Alice, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The Earl of Athlone was appointed to the post in 1914, but at the outbreak of World War I decided to stay home and fight...
...tower-the bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain, Laborites had insisted on placing questions concerning its activities on the Order Paper...