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...send Lord Halifax to Berlin to confer with Hitler, (see p. 22), rushed back to London in the state of overexcitement which has put him to bed several times before at tense moments (TIME, April 15, 1935, et seq.), announced he had "gone to bed with a chill." Viscount Halifax's departure for Berlin was speeded up by one day, and the New York Times learned that "humiliated" Mr. Eden had "tried to resign" and was "on the verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs, which have been cabling Ambassador Davis plea after plea for "Peace...
...Viscount Shinichiro Kurino '81, member of the Japanese privy council and minister to the United States in 1894, died yesterday at Tokio. He was eighty-six years...
...virtual unanimity on the British scheme to secure "substantial" withdrawal of volunteers fighting on both sides in Spain, then accord full belligerent rights to both Leftists and Rightists (TIME, Nov. 1). "There is not a single member of the committee who does not accept [The Scheme], excepting Russia," announced Viscount Cranborne, an acting chairman. "Yet I think it may be that even Russia tomorrow may see her way to accept...
Arrived in London, His Majesty was graciously pleased to assent to the text of his Speech from the Throne, drawn up by the Chamberlain Cabinet, and to assent to its being read to the Lords and Commons last week by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham. This usual procedure of opening the last session of a Parliament did not necessitate the presence of Their Majesties, and Viscount Hailsham read with traditional decorum such phrases from the King's Speech as "the Queen...
Author Booth Tarkington, an art lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...