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...with Annie, Tanis & Loelia. In London, hostess-of-the-week was Anne (Annie) Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Viscountess Rothermere, energetic wife of the second Viscount (Daily Mail) Rothermere, who organized a "treasure hunt." This was a farewell gesture for some visiting friends-Howard and Tanis Dietz (she is the former Tanis Guinness, of the stout Guinnesses; he is MGM's publicity potentate who originated Leo the Lion). When Anne's Mayfairest guests rolled up (sixish) at the Rothermeres' Warwick House behind St. James's Palace, they found that no ordinary treasure hunt awaited them...
Just back from London, Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, stoutly urged the Hindu, Moslem and other leaders and princes to accept Britain's plan to keep India united
Agreement to Disunite. Far away from the Jumna's banks, in the quiet atmosphere of London's No. 10 Downing St., a Briton who had striven desperately to save Mother India from vivisection reluctantly prepared the operating table. Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, laid before the full British Cabinet his plan for handing over British power to Indians. The knotty question was, what power to which Indians? Every Indian leader except Mohandas Gandhi had agreed that they could not unite, but could not agree how to disunite...
...negotiating paved the way for the big deal. When Britain's wartime Prime Minister came to the U.S. last year for a rest and his Fulton speech, he told inquirers that he might not write his memoirs, but would leave the raw material to his heirs. Last fall Viscount Camrose, his old friend and publisher of the London Daily Telegraph (see below), sailed for the U.S., ostensibly to enjoy the Queen Elizabeth's maiden voyage, but actually on a mission that not even his staffers knew about: he had come to tell prospective U.S. bidders that Churchill...
From the charwomen to the foreign correspondents, everybody who works for the London Daily Telegraph got a jubilant mimeographed note from the boss, and an extra week's pay. Viscount Camrose had reason to celebrate: the sickly (circ. 80,000) daily he had bought into in 1928 had reached a healthy 1,001,047. A front-page box proclaimed: "This is the first time in the newspaper history of the world that any quality newspaper has achieved a million sale...