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...ruddy, stalwart Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, 66, of Westerham, Kent, native of India, veteran army officer and diplomatist, treaty-maker with Tibet (1904)*, committee head of the expedition to climb unconquered Mount Everest. In Manhattan he was guest of honor at a "Tea Conference" of The Threefold Movement, of which he is London committee chairman. He told his hosts why no attempt has recently been made to scale the world's highest peak. Said he: "The Tibetans believe that their gods have been offended and are angry and so have requested us not to apply at present for leave...
...Westerham Kent...
...squealing piglets belong to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home affairs, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, tall, pompous, correct, and usually frock-coated; but by no means heedless of the ballot pulling power of pigs. Mr. Churchill's piggery is at Westerham; and Sir William's nestles on his Sussex estate, Newick Park. Both are scorned as mere "gentlemen's pig pens" by shrewd, onetime (1916-22) Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who owns a large, commercial pig ranch and tells his former constituents that "you and I keep pigs for profit, not prizes...