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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1952.

BOOK OF HISTORY AND THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR

When an Eden marries a Churchill

GENERAL 'JOIN CHURCHILL, Ist Duke of Marlborough (d. 1733)

+

1

LADY

ANNB CHURCHILL-CHARLES SPENCER, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, Pirat Lord of the Troszury (Prime Miniatar}

CHABLES SPENCER, 3rd Disks of Mariborough 16, 1758)

GEORGE SPENCER, (1) Duke of Mariborough

'GEUROE SPENCER-CITURCHILL, 6th Duke of Mariboronian

T

GEORGE _SPENCER-CHURCHMLA, ÇİN Duke of Marlborough

(d. 1857)

JOUN WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHMA, 7h Duke of Mark-

borough

GORD RANDOLPU Upence! CHURCHILL, Secretary of State for

India and Uhancellor of the Etchequer (d. 1993)

WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER MAJOR JOHN "STRANGE CHURCHILL Prime Ministar SPENCER CHURCHID,

CLARISSA ŠPENCER-CHURCHILL==(BOISSET) ANTHONT EDEN

Now a long line of CHURCHILLS

SIN RUBERT EDEN, M.F. 195 Bt of Weas Auckland (d. 1720)

BIR JOUN KUEN. Để th If

BIR MAHMUT KUEN, 6th Bt. (d. 1264)

BIR VREDRICK KUEN. wd B. of Maryland

SIR JOHN EDEN. M.P., 2nd Br SIR ROBERT EDEN, Jra EL.

DJA ROBERT EDEN. Gop. of Maryland. created a BL

SIR FREDERICK MUBTON EDEN, 2nd U. of Maryland

BIR WILLIAM, BA Maryland, succeeded na sih

WILLIAM EDEN, LORD AUCKLAND, Under Foreign 860. Northern Dept.

(d. 2010)

HURTON RDEN, LORD HENLEY..

Min. to GopENAADON

Berlin and Vienna (sh 1830)

George Eben. Earl of Auckland 1a 1848)

OEN. BIR CHARLES GREX, tet Earl, Orey id. 1807)

Ht. Rey koWARD

URBY,

Bishop of iteratora

8th on)

BIR WILLIAM OBEY

Ut. of West Auckland

BES WILLIAM EDEN-BYBIL FRANCES

Teh 179, 10, 1915)

GREY

BAI, TIMOTUY CALFERT EDEN

EN DI

CHARLESEND TABL

GREY.

Prime Minister

Waliam IV

HENRY GEORGE.

to

27 KARL GREY, War and Colonial

*So, rd DE

(ROVERT) ANTHONÝ EDEN – CLAR188a SPENCER-CHURCHILI.

DON IDDON'S DIARY

-meets a long line of EDENS

resumes

HON. UT GEOKUL

OBKY. Ut. (3rd som

SIE GEUNGK GREY. UL Home Neo 74 1882)

GEOROS HENRY

GREY

SIR EDWARD UNEX, Vucount Gray

dilodon

Foreign seo, to Edward

VI and Deorge

19331

with a first - hand

report from the Haven-on-Earth Island in the Atlantic

This

Mid-

--Hamilton, Bermuda, British until 2000 and never pertaining to propriety of dress Field. They have brought the muda.. His house. is on

Tuesday, mind the dollars,

ibat are being enforced in order money. They're protecting us. It Ocean golf course, on the Blue to maintain Bermuda's post- would be okay with me if Ber. Sea, and it is ideal. Near by HE Bermudians seo

Outwardly there has been tion as a most attractive and muda became part of the United Ulves Sir Geoffrey Duveen, who in serpents

their some "Americanisation" in pleasant holiday resort."

States."

files an enormous Unton Jack from his house. Eden, but I don't Hamilton and St George, and in

has suggestion

been The mirage of millionaire I met Sir Geoffrey at a party think they have much the big hotels. The drug store

and the snack counter, the juke- applied to men to worry about. They are box and the cola drinks have

well as prosperity made in the U.S. given by Bob Kriendler for Tex concerned about the future not been kept out, but there are Women, as some men were go for everyone deludes tome people American television stars

Ing around stripped to the hero. They don't know how McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg. *We of the pound sterling (the no garish neon signs, no hot-dog waist.

lucky liey are. A hard-working nd Sir Geoffrey said:

should put out more flags, my thing to

taxi-driver ein average £17 or do is to worry

You may think this preoc- £18 a week for performing a boy, bang, the drum for Britnin about how to bolster and

cupation with dress. Is trivia.

very pleasant job, amald in the and never mind criticism from strengthen it). They are The most American feature Believe me, this has been the fashionable section gets £8 a anyone." wondering if it was wise to of this British

con- the biggest talking point und

week, and life is tranquil and taxes are ni permit motor-cars into their island. They are apprehen- sive that this haven

stands, and few hamburger joints.

island 14

radio service with news pro troversy In Bermuda during grammes deliverra in staccato the past month. This is a mea- machine-gun bursts in the sure of Bermuda's problems.

Winchell on Walter

I manner,

It is a pity that the bencats don't like them. But Bermuda Another worry is the motor- of life untier the Union Jack are earth may be spoiled by lives almost entirely on tourists ear and motor cycle. Bermuda's not stressed more. The coloured "package" tourist groups and most of the tourists are lanes are narrow and winding, population, which outnumbers vulgarising the place.

suitable for horse-drawn carri- the while by close on two to Americans, so what can I do?

AMONG WORLD'S MOST

FORTUNATE

CHILDREN

dustrial diamond merchant of

ECHOES FROM THE PAST SOUND LOUDER THAN MOST PEOPLE IMAGINE...

NEW people who have followed the romanco of Mr Anthony Eden" and Miss Clarissa Spencer- Churchill would realise that the Edens have . much longer political history than the Churchills.

The Churchills were country squires in Devon until tho career of General John Chur- chill raised him to the Duke- dom of Marlborough, and made him the owner of Blenheim Palace.

Like the Churchills, the Edens were soldiers before they were statesmen.

The V.I.P.S

tho

Anthony's brother, Sir Timo thy Elen, has chronicled family records: "Within the last 200 year"," ho writes, "there have sprung from thu Eden family of West Auckland and Windlestone (the old fondly net) quite a posse of admirala and generals, of bishops and ambassadors, and Governors and Cabinet Ministers."

to

The family tree can ba atretched back through EGYE hundred years to Robert

of the Eden, lard

manor of Preston-on-Tees in the reign of Edward III.

The Eden pedigree thus ex- seeds that of Mr Churchill. "When these things were lu- ing" the Earl of Arundel in' a heated debate once rudely told the first Lord Spencer, first of Mr Churchill's ancestors to be ennobled. "your ancestors wero keeping sheep,"

Eight sons

The Edens wero leisurely country gentlemen who

-1000

Ideal show-flight AND Mr Van Moppes, a rich in- British and Dutch ancestry, told sionally visited Parliament, un- me: "This is no time for British til the time of Sir Robert Eden, understatement and false the third Baronet, who modesty. Look at our Comets." eight sons.

I should like

like to have looked at our Comets,

but I'm say that

none la

I'm sorry to

They will not be ble here. ;

tot Ber muda next year os planned. This Is a mistake. The New York- Bermuda run would have been an Ident show-flight for he Comet.

Our other products are being I have spent more than a The big stores on the water- ages and bleycles but hazardous one (the entire population of publicised. Fine English wool- month here, and it seems to me front are as British as the bull for cars which were only per- Bermuda is only 40,000) get the lens, superb china, soft flannels,

fairest of fair deals that Bermudians are among the dog. The great merchants the misted here a few years ago.

This is and worsted silk dressing-gowns world's most fortunate children. Triminghams, Gostings, Tuckers, The speed limit is 20 miles on Utopin for them, compared with are all being snopped up by

They pay no Inc

Income tax. Smiths, Coxes, and Troits the hour (15 in some places). These the life they would lead in the Americans; who would have to

Butterfeld They have an exquisite Island bankers

dominate limits are broken hundreds

more for them ir. of southern States of the US pay a third times eve with an almost perfect climate, the capital and the colony.

day, and the courts, oven in Harlem. I hope they the Unlied States. every beaches,

conducted superb magnificent

British realise this. on strictly

But, because Bermuda makes bathing, and a lovely country- Their ancestors same

here lines, are crowded with casts. Perhaps some are dazzled by and grows dlmost nothing and

Stars and Stripes, which side and many have money in when Bermuda was settled and

Imports almost everything she motor-cars banned from this outnumber the Union Jacks at the bank. Compared with most they run everything. They are Many old Bermudians want the people.

they recline on velvet passionately attached to the sedate Shangri-La. They con- the dock when the Queen of cats, some prices are incredibly and loll in clover,

policy of Bermuda for the Ber-sider them ä tanger to public Bermuda salls in. Perhaps they high eggs, Ts. 6d. a dozen; ba- I was talking to the Mayor of mudians, with the emphasis on safely and they hate the noise are impressed by the fact that a con, 6s. 6d. a lb; butter, as, 3d. Hamilton, Mr E. R.

the British bond. (Roddie)

of the internal combustion en- visiting American reeds only his 1; 71b. of Canadian beef corte £0 15s, and one lettuce is 38. Williams, on the beach

ging, I think, however, the return ticket to rerive and deed. New Zealand lamb, however, Their record They are implacably opposed to in Bermuda.

Is impressive, motor-car is here to stay-even part, whereas a British subject is only 6s, a lb. any invasion from Coney Island pr. Atlantic City. They moved resolutely against what they called "Immodest or im- proper dress" in' publie.

to

Tuckerstown the other day, and he said: "We hope the currency regulations will be relaxed permit investments in the dol lar area. Bermudians want to do this, and it seems logical,

Fine shopwindow

"IN

Cheap Taxis

E

They can pay

like myself needs a passport, an Income tax clearance, a currency permit, and papers vouching for my status. THERE are large fleets of tiny

When I arrived by alr

WELL, the Americans have the W money and they can pay the taxis (no car of over 14 h.p. official must hive thought I

type bills. They are doing so without many murmurs of complaint. that? After all this is Bermuda, the lale of Rest, the fabulous resort, the enchanted land, the play- ground of the celebrity.

very

in

second-band is allowed here), so most of the dealt It has been the habit of American girls-and

and writers. cars are Rootes products possibly

Aurling 66 N away Britain is fortunate some British to go around the Morrises,

"Are you going to sell or Infant Toxi tariffs In having such a fine shop- streeks

hair

or three-quarters Fords,

are cheap You can't bring a typewriter in window for her goods here. We nude. Females of ages ranging compared with London or New here, you know."

York

rates. have

but made a surplus of over from 14 to 70 have been stroll-

some taxi- I said, "Tve had that type

Shirley Temple has just left, 7,000,000 dollars

drivers are in the past ing the streets or riding pendent and seem

inde- writer for 12 years, and the six months, wiping out our bleyales

in very short shorts, huge tips, at least whenever I It is one of the tools of my trade 30 is Victor McLaglen. David to expect been in many parts of the world. but Monty Woolly is here and defelt to Britain, so why not halters, abbreviated panties, or

He Niven is often here, and so are invest some of our dollars in swimsuits with bare midriffs. am around.

to try

take it from me."

Dean Acheson and the Mar- Occasionally I have been mis- didn't. authorities went into taken for on American-I cannot There are, of course, some quess of Milford Haven.

Mr and Mrs Elmer Doakes, of action. The police handed the imagine why-and the driver, stalwart people here who show semi-naked females green cards sniffing dollars, has said: "What the flag and speak up for the Kansas Cly, are proud to know This. They really will have which read: "May we respect- Eermuda needs is American pep Commonwealth.

I have been staying at the something to tell their neigh fully suggest that your attire and know-how. After all, the may prove to be embarrassing, Americans have moved in and house of Sir Brooke Francis, bours as there are certain regulations bullt the big, base at Kindley who was Chief Justice of Ber- "abroad,"

the dollar arca?”

I said I was no financier, but it seemed all right to me, al though I hoped Bermuda would remain essentially British.

Bermuda has been British since 1000 and I want to see it

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HEARTACHES REALLY HAPPEN

PAIN

IF YOU'RE WORRIED

ever

the heart causes more groundless fear than any other symp- tom of imaginary disease.

In the great majority of cases it g due to rothing more dangerous than Indigestion--

which a spot. of bicarbonate will

put right or an aching chest

ARE YOU SCARED TO SEE A DOCTOR?

with a report on the most usual reason of all

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

Overweight men who walk too little and eat too much are lerri- fed when their hearts start thumping after a few minutes' lawn-mowing on Sunday,

In the past scores of young men and women have been wrongly told that they hud enlarged hearts and must not play games or en dancing.

Doctors are not to make these mistakes today. There have been great advances by the diagnosis of heart complaints in the last few years.

heart

Yet if they only realised it,

The well-informed G.P.; now they are continuously burdened with the weight of a heavy sult knows what appears to be an realise that it is extremely dia-

These unhappy people do not care-In the form of excess fat. enlarged heart may be a per-

Even if your heart races at a fectly

normal

which cuit to locate the real position of really alarming to the cause has been sugally and harmless

be Yet thousands of people who a deep-seated pain.

cause displaced by a posture defect.

He knows too that scope Anxiety is also the commonest symptoms which

muscle,

heart attack.

more

People

Word

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onco

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have nothing seriously wrong Liver trouble causes an acte than heart weakness, with them live in daily dread of in the right shoulder. being struck down by a sudden with lungs painfully inflamed cause of genuine heart pain. considered to be sure signs of with pneumonia have been so "Just as some people have a heart weakness are unreliable

or indigestion when unicas They are too scared to discuss sure that the pain was in the headache

backed by additional their symptoms with a doctor. abdomen that they have been worried, others get this left evidence.

heart specialist Dr alded pain,"

I. McDonald Stowert For they are so sure the pain operated on der appendicitis. is from a weakened heart that

Maurice Compbell has told his recently coramined 525 healthy convinced the doctor A distended stomach, they

at. doctors student an ore

women in Guy's young men and would immediately order them Inflamed rib muscle, or brosius Hospital,

check test at Bristol University. to bed.

may cause pain which appears

had neurotle symptoms may These

He found that 179 of them Husbands with mortgages to to come from damaged heart. be, so realistic that oven the "murmurs suspicious abi pay and housewives. with Thousands of other people doctor may be misled. It is normal. Heart sounds and in families to care for dare, not have further distressing "heart" now certain that 60 percent only five cases was there really take this risk. So they carry on aymptoma, such as palpilation of the diagnosea of organic any heart wonknots. And yet half heroically expecting to col- and breathlessness, yet there is heart diacape made by British the neurosis caused by feard of lapse any day--and the pain gets hething organically wrong with Any doctors in World War I heart trouble can be, almost na

crippling as the disease imelt

worse.

them.

Were Wrong,

bad

Two became peers and two. were baronets. The second was. Governor of Maryland and be- Cabinet Minister, was created came a baronet; the third, u

Lord Auckland, and tho youngest, was Minister azil am- bassador at seven European

courts.

143

William Eden, Lord Auck- land, was sold to possess most insinuating, gentle manner, which covered A deeply 好吧 triguing and ambitious spirit."

Auckland, New Zealand, was named after his son.

Mr Eden's marriage' to Misa Churchill does not set a proce- dent for an alliance between

two great. political families, for In 1839 Lord Palmerston, later to become Prime Ministor, mar- ried Emily, Countess Cowper, sister of Lord Melbourne, then Prime Minister.

A dynasty?

that

the

Those who now argue the marriage could mark foundation of a political dynasty have good genealogical evidence.

For Anthony Eden's mother was Sybil Grey, grand-niece of Charles, Earl Grey, the Prime Minister whose Administration passed the Reform Bill.

over .

The Greys continued in office until World War I. Sir Edward Grey, Lord Grey of Fallodon, held the office of Foreigo Secretary for 11 years. The day before war was declared ho made his famous speech..."the lamps are going out, all Europe,"

Lake the Churchills, the talents of the Eden family cean chiefly to descend to younger sons, and the family motto "Si Sit Prudentia" (if there be. Pru- dence), seems particularly up- posite to a Foreign Secretary, more so than that of the Chur- Faithful though unfortunate. clulls "Fiel Pero Desdichado"--

Patrick Montague-Smith

of 'DEBRETT

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

"1" hope to become" Margaret Truman body (2 guard when, To grim'sp

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