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...weighing Eden-on-butter against Göring-on-butter, neutral observers did not forget that the British Captain consistently weighs about 152 lb., while the German General-Oberst has dieted down in recent months some 25 lb. to about...
Germany and Italy told the world, not necessarily telling the whole truth, first that they will cooperate in Captain Eden's Spanish Non-intervention Committee at London to bar all further foreign volunteer soldiers and foreign munitions from the Spanish Civil War, in accordance with recent Franco-British proposals; and second that, between now and the time this anti-volunteers pact can be drafted, signed and sealed, both Italy and Germany will continue pouring volunteers and munitions into Spain, frankly anticipating victory for the Spanish Whites before the dawdling London Non-intervention Committee can agree on anything...
...horror. In the second panel, Edward in raincoat with Mrs. Simpson on his arm is marching over a bridge. Queen and Archbishop are still horrified, while Stanley Baldwin as the Jack of Clubs sits completely dejected on a stone beside a sorrowing Knave who might be Anthony Eden. In both panels prances a mischievous Cupid...
...Saturday Review was published by the country's reputedly wealthiest woman. Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon. Lady Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who she believed were plotting to sell out the British nation to the Bolsheviks. A plump, imperious person, voluble to an epic degree, Lady Houston died last month, her age, which she had kept secret, probably 65 to 70. Since no will was found, Lady Houston's former associates...
...that it was usually exercised in absentia. Fond of staying on her yacht Liberty, once the property of Joseph Pulitzer, Lady Houston used its cabin as a writing room in which to compose the doggerel which she often employed politically,* or to coin such phrases for Captain Eden as "That nancyfied nonentity in the Foreign Office." Another Houston dislike was for Sir Samuel Hoare, whose visit to France caused her to headline an article, "Why Send Hoares to Paris...