Word: unpacking
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Though a whole commission went to Japan seeking Chinese treasures for the London show, Japan at first churlishly refused to send a single pot. Well satisfied, the Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts to pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll upon roll of special canvas backgrounds. King George and Queen Mary did not attend last week's special preview but onetime Queen Victoria of Spain, the Crown Prince of Sweden, Margot Asquith, Lady Astor, Ramsay MacDonald, Gordon Selfridge and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin...