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Last winter bulbous, blustery Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," was furiously castigated in the House of Lords for the fact that he had been a peer for 20 years without so much as taking his seat. His attacker was peppery Major General Baron Mottistone of Mottistone. Barked Lord Mottistone: "I denounce him for his absence from this House! And I say it is wrong that this man can control great organs of public opinion and circulate to millions his wild statements...
...Government. The twenty-five years of his reign, however, have been years in which personality has counted for less and less in politics; "the King's reign has been full of great events and of movements of which we cannot yet forecast the end." Perhaps some of his subjects--Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Mr. David Lloyd George--have influenced the course of events more than...
Appearing as the first star witness, Pacifist Viscount Cecil of Chelwood at once aroused Dame Crowdy's interest by proposing that the League of Nations' system of opium control "not only by export licenses but by import certificates" be applied to armaments...
...painting is the work of Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, Viscount Hastings, son & heir of the Earl of Huntington. A direct descendant of Robert Hastings, steward to William the Conqueror, with ancestral estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...
When on a fateful night in August, 1914 the Viscount Grey prophesied that the lamps of Europe were going out and that "we shall not see them lit again in our life time," his prophetic eye did not envisage London yesterday. It's streets tricked in colors of red, white, blue and gold; its buildings flooded with many colored lights; Westminster Abbey, described in one account as "a poem in old ivory," and Buckingham Palace a "stately miracle in white"--in such dress London toasted King George's silver jubilee so proudly as to make one feel there had never...