Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nowhere in Washington was the tension more concentrated than in the pinkish-brick British Embassy that stood on its hill below the Naval Observatory. And it was concentrated there on the calm, portly, six-foot figure of the British Ambassador, Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Karr), Marquess of Lothian, Baron Ker of Newbottle, and holder of five other hereditary titles which, come British victory or British defeat, were not likely to mean much in the future...
...Baron Strabolgi (who as Lieut. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy used to speak for Labor in the House of Commons) made the neat point that, much as Prime Minister-reject Chamberlain may hate Hitler now, his past record is so identified with appeasement that "so long as he is in the inner War Cabinet, the German propagandists will find credence for their fairy tales about Britain suing for an armistice...
Crowded aboard a little Indian tramp ship built to carry 180, nearly 1,500 refugees from Bordeaux landed safely in England, among them the Baron & Baroness Robert de Rothschild and French Dramatist Henry Bernstein, fleeing Nazi anti-Semitic terrors. Fear of Gestapo black lists brought aboard the same vessel two onetime Government officials: onetime Belgian Transport Minister Marcel-Henri Jaspar and onetime French Air Minister...
...Archduke Otto, pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, and five of his brothers & sisters arrived the next night. Already in jampacked Lisbon was Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot. En route was onetime French Premier and Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Also on the way was onetime Austrian millionaire Baron Eugen Rothschild and his American wife, the former Catherine Wolff of Philadelphia...
...face of bans placed on demonstrations for or against any belligerents, a wild anti-Italian riot and shouts of "Long live France!" greeted Baron di Fontana Degli Angeli Gioacchino Scaduto Mendola, new Italian Minister to Ecuador, when he presented his credentials...