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Died. Lord Inverchapel of Loch Eck (Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr), 69, one of Britain's top career diplomats (42 years of service) and a chief adviser to the British representatives at the Potsdam, Yalta, Teheran and Cairo Conferences; of a heart attack; in Greenock, Scotland. Following four years as ambassador to Nationalist China's wartime capital, Chungking, he was sent to Moscow in 1942 for the war years, once spent two congenial hours with Stalin in a Kremlin bomb shelter during a Nazi air raid. His last assignment before retiring to his farm in Scotland: Ambassador...
...Delighted." Nationalist feeling was running high in favor of John MacCormick. But in the first stages of the campaign, when Douglas Fairbanks magnanimously withdrew in favor of Lord Inverchapel ("I substantially share his views . . ."), it seemed as if his lordship might run away with the votes...
...backers put up by far the stiffest fight. The Inverchapel Committee published a pamphlet (the Inverchapel Blast) filled with blurbs from such notables as Journalist Barbara (the Economist) Ward, the King's physician, U.S. General George C. Marshall ("Inverchapel is a leader among peace-loving people . . .") and General Dwight D. Eisenhower ("I am delighted ... Lord Inverchapel. . . friendly relations . . ."). From London came Author Harold Nicolson to speak for him (candidates themselves never appear). Deadpan and in piping voice, Nicolson began: "Lord Inverchapel is extraordinarily unconventional . . ." Students burst into shouts of "at his age" and "whooooo...
...balcony above the main gate of University Building, Glasgow's Principal Sir Hector Hetherington read out the results. The race had been close, but the Scotchest Scot of them all had won. Glasgow's new Rector was John MacDonald MacCormick, leader of the Covenant. "Second: Lord Inverchapel...
...Without Marshall and Eisenhower," said one Glaswegian, "Inverchapel might have done it-we Scots are awfu' funny when it comes tae interference in our affairs, even when it's friendly...