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...King George's New Year's Honors List, but died a few days before it could be conferred. After a tactful interval, the King gave the title to Major Hills's five-year-old son. When his mother told him of his new rank, Sir Andrew Ashton Waller Hills asked: "Is it something nice...
...John Troutbeck, first secretary of the British Legation at Prague, were made a Knight Commander and a Companion, respectively, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
...constituency in which Aitken ran was Ashton-Under-Lyne, a Liberal stronghold. The lively little financier had brought with him from Canada something besides bonds, a passionate but practical belief in Empire. To keep the British Empire whole and strong he hit upon "Empire Free Trade"-which means the building of a tariff wall around the Empire and the tearing down of all tariffs within...
Harvard Club of Maryland: Peter L. Gill, of Washington, D. C., formerly of Ashton, Md.; and Maurice C. Pincoffs Jr., of Baltimore...
This week Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin was back in Czechoslovakia, he and Lord Runciman conferred with Führer Henlein, and at these conferences there was "fearful rowing" according to reports. Viscount Runciman was said to have told Herr Henlein that he must stop inciting the Sudeten Germans to acts of violence...