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Vainly the regimental colonel protested to Maltese authorities. He went to Britain's Military Governor, General the Viscount Gort, who referred the matter to London. The Cabinet replied that "in view of the present tense relations with the Maltese population and urgent military necessities, it is impossible to intervene...
Mohandas Gandhi, recuperating near Bombay from the effects of his latest protest fast against imprisonment, was rudely referred to in the House of Lords by rugged Scottish Viscount Elibank, who called him "the greatest bamboozler of the century...
...Dean had power-in his pen and in his past. Author of 28 books, he was onetime Headmaster of Eton. Conning a mental list of some of his old boys, he wrote them letters inveighing against the threat to Durham's ancient beauty. Old Etonian Viscount Cecil rallied the Old School Ties, roused the bonnets of the House of Lords. In the House of Commons Durham-born Samuel Storey demanded an investigation. Town & Country Planning Minister William Morrison hastily promised...
Downey spent six years singing in Paris, London and Dublin resorts, and in his Club Delmonico in Manhattan. He got cocky: "An Irish boy starts to take a lot for granted when you find out that the Prince of Wales, Viscount Castlerosse or Lord Beaverbrook will talk to you like anybody else." Radio fascinated him. "The mystery of the thing got me because a guy like me had to shut the windows on Sunday because the neighbors complained, and here I was getting mail from Africa...
India, Home Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty, Air Secretary, Lord Privy Seal), since 1940 negotiation-minded Ambassador to Spain, was upped to Viscount by King George...