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Tower Duty. Eventually, Sir Osbert persuaded his father to let him give up horsemanship; he entered the Grenadier Guards. Great Morning is dedicated to one of Sir Osbert's friends and contemporaries in the Guards, then "a charming and elegant young man," now Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis (and Canada's Governor General). Most of his other Guardsman friends were dead before 1916. Happily stationed in London, resplendently uniformed and detailed to duty at the romantic Tower or at Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were...
Awarded to stately Viscount Jowitt, 62, Britain's periwigged Lord Chancellor: an honorary LL.D., by New York University's School...
...debated the issues of their day. France's Premier Poincare, Germany's Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, Czechoslovakia's President Thomas Masaryk discussed war guilt. Colonel E. M. House and Massachusetts' intransigent nationalist Henry Cabot Lodge argued the merits of the League of Nations. Britain's Viscount Grey chose Foreign Affairs for his declaration on freedom of the seas during the London naval conference, and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had recently argued France's case for control of the Ruhr...
...Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor-who looks every inch the part, in or out of his white wig-arrived in the U.S. for a month's visit, explained himself to Manhattan reporters. The Lord Chancellor, Jowitt said, is a "sort of combination of a chief justice and a minister of justice." One of the titles of the 1,300-odd-year-old office is Keeper of the King's Conscience. "The King's conscience," confided the Lord Chancellor, "is much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been...
Partly Friendly. Then Viscount Mountbatten, clad in a dazzling white naval uniform, arrived with Lady Mountbatten. The crowd cheered him too, and a Scottish band, in kilts and Glengarry bonnets, piped a greeting. Shortly before their arrival, an Indian band, celebrating the separation of India's wandering child, had tooted somewhat tactlessly, "You'd Be Far Better Off in a Home."* Inside the Assembly Building, the Briton and the Moslem got down to the business of transferring power from the British Crown to the new dominion of Pakistan. It was a formal, cut-&-dried affair. Although Pakistan...