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From the Scottish castle of Achnacarry, whither he had gone as the guest of its famed tenant, Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell Oil (TIME, Aug. 20), Walter Clark Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, last week sent a telegram. It was addressed to the London office of the Associated Press. In effect it read: "Tut-tut!" Actually it read...
...Thank you for your courteous inquiry. There is no mystery about my being here as one of Sir Henri Deterding's guests for grouse-shooting, as I have had the pleasure of being his guest on numerous previous shooting parties while in Europe...
Lonely and bleak is the Scottish castle of Achmacarry. Trout leap warily in its streams. Startled grouse fill its woods with low thunder. Bold would he be of heart, who went alone to Castle Achmacarry, as the enemy of its famed tenant, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch Shell...
Conspicuously absent from this friendly, oily shooting party was Charles F. Meyer, president of Standard Oil of New York, officially at peace with Sir Henri, actually the bitter commercial enemy of Dutch Shell...
...Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth of 20, who is now an undergraduate at the famed Belgian University of Louvain...