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Said Lord Lang: "Recent attacks upon cities like Hamburg, Frankfort and Berlin seem to me to go a long way beyond what hitherto has been the declared policy of the Government and the Bomber Command." Viscount Cranborne, Government lead er of the House of Lords, gave the prelates a firm reply. He denied that R.A.F. bombings were terror raids, told how last summer's flights over Hamburg had cost the Germans 400,000,000 man-hours, insisted that industrial life ceases only when "the whole life of the cities in which they are situated [is brought] to a standstill...
...most distinguished rebels of his generation finally had a job last week that suited him. It was high time. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 71, by primogeniture third Earl Russell and Viscount Amberley, in his own right a world-famed mathematician and philosopher, accepted a Cambridge fellowship. It was offered him by his famed alma mater, Trinity College, which in 1916 dismissed him for a pacifism he no longer holds...
Lord Burghley (rhymes with Pat Hurley), new Governor of Bermuda, ex-Olympic hurdler, got a free auto-the one the colony had bought for Governor Viscount Knollys (rhymes with Chester Bowles). The outgoing Governor, given permission by the Assembly to drive after two wartime, autoless years, had resigned before the little car arrived from England...
Foot was out as editor of the Standard. He had been disclosed as "Cassius," author of last month's Tory-scorching bestseller, The Trial of Mussolini, in which the defense summons Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Simon and many another resounding name as character witnesses for the Duce. In 1940 Foot and two other Standard men, using the name of "Cato," wrote Guilty Men, an indictment of prewar appeasers, blunderers and incompetents, including several attacked again by Cassius. That time, Beaverbrook had carefully looked the other...
...Delhi last week, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester took office as India's 19th Viceroy. The ceremony was as simple as Lord Wavell's brisk arrival by plane, as austere as the task he now faces...