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Secretary Viscount Cranborne. He met Australia's bluff John Curtin for the first time...
...took courage from the stirring of the powerful, slow-to-anger A.P. U.S. newsmen were also heartened last week to hear England's press baron, Lord Rothermere (London Daily Mail, et al.) echo the old cry of Kent Cooper for treaties guaranteeing universal freedom of the press. Declared Viscount Rothermere: "A free press is apparently a greater deterrent to the making of war than anything that can be laid down in peace treaties...
From Gandhi's prison in the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona, doctors' bulletins went to Viceroy the Viscount Wavell in New Delhi. The Raj had never intended to let the old man die in custody, and thereby become a martyr in the eyes of India's restive masses. The Viceroy, with a nod from London at the proper medical moment, ordered Gandhi's release...
...enabled him to get on with the job, but not to keep his friends. Workers who had once followed him blindly came to distrust his close relationship with Churchill, his warm friendship with such Tories as Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, Minister of State Richard K. Law, Viscount Cranborne, leader of the House of Lords. A mounting rank-&-file revolt against Labor leaders in general and Bevin in particular produced a wave of unauthorized strikes in coal mines, factories, shipyards. Regulation iAA was Fighter Bevin's unpopular answer...
...Brett. The Honorable Dorothy Brett was born in London (1891), daughter of Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher, friend and adviser of Britain's shrewd, sporty King Edward VII. Dorothy studied art at London's Slade School. In her art-student days she met Novelist D. H. Lawrence, was so impressed by him that she followed him to Taos. After Lawrence's death, in 1933. Dorothy Brett wrote Lawrence and Brett, a minor literary sensation...