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...were plainly no longer interested in their onetime King. This emeritus royalty was still a national embarrassment, but a fainter one. The British Embassy carefully pointed out that the Embassy dinner for the Windsors would be "medium-sized and private." The White House took this cue: the Duke and Duchess were invited only to a lunch with the President-almost the minimum courtesy permissible by diplomatic protocol. When the death of the President's brother-in-law, G. Hall Roosevelt (see p. 17), made it necessary to cancel even this courtesy, a Presidential handshake was substituted. Their only formal...
...brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country, got a 20-mile ride with grandmotherly Queen Mary, the beauteous Duchess of Kent...
...citizens will have only fleeting glimpses of the Duke of Windsor and his Duchess when the couple go to Canada. The U.S. State Department has issued them only transit visas, ∙ ∙ After a three-month separation the First Lady of Ethiopia has left Britain to join Haile Selossie in Addis Ababa, ∙ ∙ When the Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. learned Fiorello H. LaGuardia would stop at the city airport en route from Syracuse to New York City, he declared a public holiday. New York City's hedgehopping Mayor flew over the field, circled several times, winged...
...diplomatic corps, George Waller lived a life of simplicity and devotion. He was equally devoted to his own country and to the one to which he was accredited, and by keeping the interest of the two countries always in harmony he avoided any conflict of loyalties. The Grand Duchess' No.1 adviser was Foreign Minister Joseph Bech; Adviser Bech's No.1 adviser was George Waller...
When the invasion came George Waller stuck to his post. When the Germans ousted U.S. diplomats from occupied countries in July 1940 he dropped his diplomatic title, became simply consul. On his desk he kept a picture of the Grand Duchess, changed the flowers before it daily. Finally the Germans ousted the consuls too, and George Waller returned to the U.S. on the West Point last fortnight...