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Shinwell took a merciless thumping in most newspapers (which were back to wartime four-page skimpiness).* Shinwell became a byword and a hissing. A music-hall comedian punned: "Be sure your Shinwell find you out." The House of Lords cheered as Viscount Swinton belabored him with "We suffer not from an act of God, but the inactivity of Emanuel." Shinwell got a bomb threat, and Scotland Yard put four constables around his small house in Tooting. Tooted Mrs. Shinwell: "Let them try to harm him!" Would her husband resign (as the Tory press had demanded and some Laborites had privately...
...Samuel has not suddenly turned Spanish republican. Now Viscount Templewood, he describes himself as an "English monarchist," suggests that a new Spanish monarchy might bring back peace and even "vigorous social reform" with the crown. But he makes plain his feeling that almost any form of government would be an improvement over Franco's, and cannot hide his disgust with the Franco regime...
Inspiration for this Romeo & Juliet parody (by Sagittarius, Britain's shrewdest satirical versifier, in the New Statesman and Nation) was Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's five-day visit to Moscow, where, as part of his lavish entertainment, he was taken to a gala performance of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff was feted as few foreigners have been in Moscow. Well aware of the recent British drift, especially among left-wing Laborites, away from the U.S. and toward Russia, the Kremlin was trying its best to encourage the trend...
Sardar Balder Singh. In the plane's third row sat Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India. For three years he had been trying to bring Nehru and Jinnah into agreement, now, with the peace of India hanging by a thread, they were a yard apart in space, politically as remote as ever...
Married. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, elder daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, suave Admiral of the Royal Navy, wartime Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and John Ulick Knatchbull, seventh Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late Governor of Bombay and Bengal; by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of King George, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Kent, attended by Bridesmaids Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra; in Romsey, Hampshire, England...