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...late meals, the strain of 28 days of almost continuous travel, General Ike always seemed to be enjoying himself. Though it was obvious that he did not court adulation, he seemed unfailingly appreciative of applause and good wishes. When he was given an honorary degree, along with Field Marshal .Viscount Montgomery, at Cambridge, the Public Orator said of him (in Latin): "The truth is he himself showed such an example of kindly wisdom, such a combination of serious purpose, humanity and courtesy that the others soon had no thought in their minds save to labor with one common will...
...went ailing, cantankerous War Minister Jack Lawson, aged Air Minister Viscount Stansgate, muddling Minister of Civil Aviation Lord Winster. Up went brilliant, young (36) Hector McNeil, Foreign Office Parliamentary Under Secretary, to be Minister of State; voluble Arthur Creech Jones, Colonial Office Parliamentary Under Secretary, became Colonial Minister...
Washington tried hard to play down the first U.S. visit of British Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Just a friendly call, said Harry Truman. Uneasy Monty, whirled through a hectic tour last week of U.S. military posts, donned his chattiest air of idle curiosity. But the yen to talk turkey about U.S.-British strategy was as plain as the eight rows of ribbons on Monty's chest...
...Geneva last week there met, for the first time since World War II, a cultural conference of the remnants of Europe's brilliant intellectuals. Their purpose: to try to relight those lamps of civilization which Viscount Grey, watching darkness close over Europe in 1914, said would not be lighted again in our time. Near by loomed the abandoned palace of one of man's highest hopes: the League of Nations. Around them lay a shattered Europe whose mood might be conveyed in the title of one of Delegate Georges Bernanos' books: Vast Cemeteries in the Moonlight...
Married. John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 24, son of Bertrand Russell, Britain's Socialist philosopher-earl and mathematician; and Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 20, daughter of the late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay; in Washington...