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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, is the calm, persuasive statesman with weak eyes who served for eleven consecutive years as Foreign Secretary, made the entente with France and Russia, reluctantly but vigorously led Great Britain into the World War. Last week, though his years are now three-score and seven, and though his eyes are very dim indeed, Lord Grey made a brief, dignified public statement which had the effect of a dynamite depth bomb on his party-Liberal...
While last week's explosives were detonating below him, David Lloyd George was happily celebrating his 67th birthday. But most politically wise Britons surmised that the cocky little Welshman would think up plenty of drastic things to say about Viscount Grey's disturbance. Few if any could have foreseen the nature of his remarks. Summoning a meeting of the National Liberal Club, he extended toward his assailant a rhetorical glad hand which smacked much more of a rebuke than any amount of invective. Said he: "I appeal to Lord Grey not to discourage the party when...
Another time, Baron Henri de Rothschild asked her to a party on his yacht, along with Prince and Princess Olaf of Norway, and she gave a command performance for Viscount Lascelles. In the U. S. she has been practicing a new whirl the Alex Paulsen-which is a turn and a half in the air, the skater landing on one skate going backward. She skates a little every and between times dances, dines, goes the theatre...
From time to time historical figures enter the book: Viscount Grey, Lord Balfour, Newspaperman Harmsworth (afterward Lord Northcliffe). Of Grey, Author Tomlinson makes one of his characters say: "I see nothing in him, nothing. If he were not so silent and stately, people would laugh. He is silent because if he spoke you would know...
...great man thus thumbnail-sketched was Gustav Stresemann who died of a form of apoplexy (TIME, Oct. 14). Thumbnailer: Viscount D'Abernon, patrician first Ambassador of Great Britain to the German Republic, writing in the January issue of Foreign Affairs, scholarly grey-bound U. S. quarterly. Of Stresemann and himself the Viscount writes: "For six years we were in almost daily intercourse. ... I believe that no two men in similar positions were ever more frank with one another or more free...