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Died. Lord Strabolgi, 67, Britain's "Labor Peer," an articulate traitor to his class, who delighted in rocking the House of Lords; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Although his father and American mother had fought and won a hard genealogical battle to establish their right to the 635-year-old family title, Strabolgi seemed to wish they had lost. To the dismay of his fellow peers, he once snorted: "The House of Lords . . . is a picturesque survival of the feudal system . . . out of tune with the modern world . . . Better let it go the way of the divine right...
While the immediate fate of the Labor government was being decided in the House of Commons, the House of Lords discussed the chance of a coalition. Said Labor's Lord Strabolgi: "Whether the King's government can be sustained or not depends upon whether a few gentlemen have temperatures which are up or down, or are perhaps in hospital, and can come and vote, if at all, only in bath chairs. That is an absurd situation...
Pompous Labor Lord Strabolgi (the tenth of his line) backslapped portly Labor Lord Quibell (first of his line), an ex-Midlands bricklayer. Lord and Lady Woolton (he top-hatted, she bejeweled) nodded to Sir John and Lady Anderson (he in formal cutaway, she in wedge sandals). Opposition Leader Winston Churchill, in striped pants and spotted bow tie, came with Anthony Eden, magnificent in formal clothes and studied carelessness...
...Lord Strabolgi, a voluble, retired lieutenant commander of the Royal Navy, said in the House of Lords that the next 100 days "will be as important in the history of the world as the 100 days before Waterloo. . . . Then Napoleon met his fate, and Hitler will meet his if we act bravely and swiftly...
...Parliament. To a reporter, a BBC official said with historic detachment: "We shall certainly play one of the Russian anthems. The question is: what is the Russian anthem?" BBC compromised by playing a recording of a Red Air Force song, Plane, My Plane! Labor's Chief Whip Lord Strabolgi slyly reminded the House of Lords that The Internationale was a stand-by of Labor Party meetings, that he had seen Minister of Home Security Herbert Morrison singing "with great gusto and evident enjoyment...