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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822) was an unstable Ulster aristocrat whose favorite costume (pink hunting coat and riding boots) made him a figure in Parliament. Foreign Secretary from 1812 to 1822, he stiffened the Grand Alliance that defeated Napoleon. At the Congress of Vienna, which laid the foundations for a hundred years of Pax Britannica, he put on a classic display of balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following...
Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), great practitioner of cruiser diplomacy, bulldozed British prestige to its highest level since Waterloo. Three times in office (for a total of 16 years), he was disliked by underlings, whom he bullied, but was popular with the public, to whom he was "Old Pam." Under Old Pam a belligerent Britain invaded the Crimea to keep the Russians out of Turkey, annexed Hong Kong, elbowed the French away from Egypt. He disliked everything un-British; the Americans were "swaggering bullies...
Winston Churchill had kept the job for himself until he could find the right man to fill it. This week, having found the man, and secured his release from another job, Churchill picked Field Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis to be Britain's Minister of Defense. The chief, unpublicized intent of Churchill's recent visit to Canada was to get Alexander, who will leave his post as Governor General of Canada later this month to join Churchill's cabinet. His five-year term had already been temporarily extended twice while Canadians looked for a replacement...
...workaday schoolrooms of Ottawa's Joan of Arc Institute were bright with holiday colors as proud fathers & mothers gathered for the annual Christmas pageant. Word soon got around that a distinguished family was in the audience: Canada's Governor General Viscount Alexander of Tunis, his wife Lady Alexander and their two sons, Shane and Brian. Then everyone quieted down to watch the nursery school actors dance and do their little play called Where Do You Come From, Shepherd...
...Died. Viscount Addison, 82, oldest of Britain's leading politicians; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Radnage, England. Starting out as a physician, he went to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1910, later switched to Socialism, in 13 governments successively became Munitions Minister, Minister of Health, Minister of Agriculture and Dominion Secretary, and after he got his title, became Labor's leader in the House of Lords...