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While the British Navy acted last week to repair a serious breach in the British Empire defense, Viscount Craigavon, His Majesty's Prime Minister in Northern Ireland, scurried to London for an urgent conference with Warlord Winston Churchill on an equally serious problem: "Irish back door...
...Ireland, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera stubbornly refused to compromise. "In order to prevent misapprehension," he declared last week, "I desire to repeat that the Government has no intention of departing from the policy of neutrality adopted last September. ..." Representing land-owning Londonderrys and other Conservatives in Northern Ireland, Viscount Craigavon was equally adamant. "Mr. de Valera is once again blackmailing the British Government to end partition," he accused...
16th Duke of Norfolk, 27th Earl of Arundel, Premier Duke & Earl of England, turned up in a French hospital south of the Somme, having been wounded at Boulogne. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, Viscount Cowdray, grandson of multimillionaire Engineer Sir Weetman Pearson and non-playing captain of the British polo team that played in the U. S. in 1939, returned badly wounded from Flanders to have his left arm amputated in Durham Hospital. Upon hearing the news, his wife gave birth to a premature daughter...
...Said Viscount Gort, commander of the B. E. F., after dodging a Nazi tank column in Flanders: "I am damned if I'll let the Germans capture me. I am willing to face out the matter of death, but I certainly do not intend to be paraded down Unter den Linden for the Germans to jeer...
Married. Jacqueline Vereker, 25, daughter of John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker (Viscount Gort), Commander of the B. E. F. ; and Captain W. P. Sidney, 28, of the Grenadier Guards; in London...