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The Last Of The Fabulous Peers

By Les Armour

London. retirement on a chicken fem,

A FAIRYTALE Duke has will act only a small fraction.

dled and a mighty fortune and the last vestiges of an era died with him.

Thus ends the fortune which

began in 1078 when Thomas Grosvenor, son of a Clushiro yeoman, married Mary Davies, dowry, was a 600-acre farm,

The Duke of Westminster a crivener's was London's richest land. lord. He was also Van-" couver's richest landlord.

But those are mere de- talls....

It is unlikely that anyone will again lend 400 guests on a wild boar hunt through France.

Nor is it likely that any one else will buy up the fishing rights on an entire Norwegian river for the entertainment of his friends. The Duke WOB world champion salmon fisher- man, a. title he gained on the river he bought, the Alto, when he caught 83 salmon weighing 792 pounds in a single day's fishing.

Certainly, no one will repent his gesture to the poor of

Westminster-six acres of the richest land in London let at a shilling year for a housing project.

The Duke was among the last of the fabulous peers.

daughter. Her

Now that farmland is part of hustling, bustling London, and from it grew the Grosvenor wealth.

But it did not stop there. The held 63,000-neres -- in

Duke. Scotland and 30,000 in Cheshire

and Flintshire.

Imagination characterized all his enterprises. In Scotland, he planted 5,000,000 young fr It will be 100 or 159 troes. years before they pay off in timber.

Dri

Once, he spent £100,000 on select dairy herds for his tenants

11,000-acre an Cheshire estate. The 52 farmers eventually became owners of The herds and paid only nominal interest.

When the circumstances justi- fed, however, he could drive a hard bargain. He sold his 990- year lease of Grosvenor Square to the Americans for £1,000,000.

Newest of his, projects was on 250-acre Antiaels Island, in tho Fraser River adjoining Vancou- ver. He planned factories, roads, and railways on the poplar-studded

semi-swamp

land at a cost of £63,000,000.

This project, at least, will His home in Cheshire almost certainly remain intact Eaton Hall-is the size of a though it is likely to pass now metropolitan hotel. And, like to other hands. an Hotel, it was always full of guests.

His yachts and boats formed a small navy; his collection of orchids WILS probably the finest in the world,

£30,000,000 he Now, of the left, the Chancellor of Ex- chequer is likely to get £23,-

000,000-the largest death duly

haul in British history.

The remaining £8,000,000 will be divided between his 39- year-old wife, his two daughters,

and other close relatives.

Sources close to the family report that the new Duke, a 59-year-old invalid who lives in

For the most part, his enter

prise and his philanthropy must now pass to the Welfare State. Whatever the social justice in the change, the happy surprises and fruitful daring of one of the last great individualists is sure to pass.

.

The new Duke (third in the line), though a keen race horse fancier and a thorough farmer, ir precluded by health from an active rebuilding of the family

fortunes.

He was a cousin of his pre- decessor

four who, despite marriages, left no sons,

He has said that he does not want to move into one of the great domilly houses. A recluse by force of circumstance, he has grown to like his quiet iffe.

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WHO REALLY IS

T

нystem

FOR

HE view that it is possible for the Soviet political sys- tem to Co- exist

has been,

s

PEACE?

By HUGO DEWAR

with

svin

DON IDDON'S DIARY

They Don't Throw Champagne Over The Hedge Now

Newport, Rhode Island.

In

French costumes with

T seemed a good idea to powdered wigs. Twenty thousand linger a little in New- tlona, and one time, at me party roses were imported us decora❤ port, combining a single course hod 400 mixed journalism with pleasure, so birds in it. The footmen used to having seen

Mr Anthony throw bottles of whisky and Eden safely off the premises in those days. You know, I feel

champagne over the hedges to

៖ បទ I have stayed on in this say not seemer to feel sorry fớc, the servants.” Everyone for the servants, the butters with Incidentally the photo skeleton staffs, the chefs.ordered to graphs of Mr Eden that I prepare. snacks Instead of have seen in no way do him lonely houses, the regiments of

feasts, the housekeepers In justice. He tooks far fitter maids and stable-boys who have, in the flesh.

Лед

famous town.

their

Newport is sorry to see "Newport

One butler told me sadly: will just have to the Foreign Secretary go, adjust itself to now condit.ons. although it caught only We can't afford the big banqueta the merest glimpse of him, and the big jobs any more, and The fact that Eden spent want them even If we could I'm not so sure people would his three weeks here has afford them."

given the town a lift and a filip, und everyone who faces the facta knows that It badly needed a social boost. The resort where the glided set once lived like rajahs has been in a decline.

Closed down

A

Readjustment

N attempt at readjustment is taking place. The late Corac llus Vanderbill's huge house, The Breakers, is helping to support

itself as a museum.

1. was handed a brochure shortly after arriving here. It read: "Because of widespread interest, The Breakers' will, bo man who drove me open from May 1st thru Novem- THE

around said bitterly: ber ist, 1933. Individual admis❤ elons may be obtained for each It factors this belief precisely "Newport? Why, it would building or a combination ticket because the Communist parties of bo a ghost town but for the may be purchased for $2....all the democratic world inspired United States Navy, and it's come derived from admission is and supported by the Soviet Goverment, seek to utilise the pretty dead even with the used to further, the work of the border States Into, the Soviet policy. It cannot he said that peacefully with the captalist system-has plainly demonstrat- this demagogie approach to the

struggle, for peace". order to Ballora here. There aren't preservation society." ated that belief in the inevitability problem represents any

Influence and strengthen any big parties any more— Because of "widespread in- great their organisations in those cir income tax has seen to that. | intervals, a recurring theme of "wor

the capitalist improvement.

terest," eh? Because of death For the Trud

Curistorteds Izvustin's complaint of Soviet propaganda, Even world" has remained the essen- article continues to harp, if u that the "capithist Stairs have A lot of the great houses ing capital, and because of what taxes, dwindling Incomes, melt- those who

tial motive force of Soviet a minor key, on the theme that so for failed to reply to the have closed down. See that Newport people call the Rovo- strongly dis-

foreign policy.

only the Soviet Union really approve of Russian policy

appeal of the World "Pero mansion over there?" He,lution" The revolution was stands for peace, would agree that pacific co-

What the Soviet Governmen!

Council merely serves to heighten

bloodshed. massive without

It wag apparently unable to

the suspicion that the Sovies pointed to ap-

A leading article in Izvestia Government is not roodly serious pillared house as we drove thinking and way of life.

merely a revolution In people's existence theoretically

preciate is that its postwar ex- and the possible;

vast

Bellevue along on May 12 pursues the same in its proclaimed desire for slowly pansionist policy has been the majority of mankind un- main, if not the sole, cause of line. Referring to the activities international co-operation.

Avenue,

I do not want to give the im- questionably regard it as the present tension between of the so-called World "Peace"

pression that there is an atmo- highly desirable.

East and West. It can hardly Council, it states that tho

"It's in dine condition, good sphere of death and decay about be denied that when the war Soviet Government, "loyal tu

bathrooms, and everything and Newport. It is still a beautiful with Nazi Germany ended, the polley of strengthening

wonderful grounds. It is possible theoretically, soviet

Well, they tio town. sold it the other day and only "stock".

the peace and international under- among because there stand in the Western Alles was very high standing.... has idenuded fHE Soviet Government would got $18,000 for it.

The shops in the upper part Iway of its achievement no indeed. No

praise was too self with the world peace move- not for one moment tolerate on

of the town are elegant and im- "Imagine $18,000 for a castle, pressive, the tennis tournaments material obstacles that great for the heroic Red Army ment of the peoples in defence its own textory an organisation

and the resolute Soviet peoples of peace.... The Governments propagating support for theke that I remember the days continue, and the Newport cannot be overcome by the Soviet

single ball Government had of the capitalist States, it con- policies of the Western domo when

and small yachts still cost a Casino well-wishers determined goodwill; it is friends and

tinues, "have so for failed to cracler and casting doubt upon hundred thousand. There was race. (However, where the most desirable because to every strata of society in the reply to the appent" (of the ts ava claims to seek a pescend one lady, Mrs Pembroke Jones, famous America's Cup races used

World "Fence" Council]. solution of day military science has Western democracies.

Worlth

problems. Why who always set aside $300,000 at to start there is now a night shouldd It expect

the the beginning of each Newport club). become so formidable that Never had tho situation been

"capitalist governments" not only season just for entertainment. to foolt kindly upon such a body, But now the place is dead.” brukt oven to use it as a channel for diplomatic negotiations with the Soviet bloo?

in

war between East and West more propitious to the achieve More Suspicious

might conceivably destroy ment the whole of the civilised world.

ها

then

Contradiction

I think the driver was exag- gerating a little the fall of New-

:

Three Newports

of the peaceful co- existence of the two world systems. Does anyone really seriously believe that all this implication--clear:-only ------

port from vast wealth and social-NEW-types of houses; smaller," towards goodwill

the Soviet the Soviet Government

N Is là not high time that the grace, but it is true that Newport compact estate farms are Unfortunately, the Soviet world was destroyed by evil- "loyal to peace."

Soviet Government realised that is not the fabulous

resort it being built in place of the leaders have also from time minded capitalsts intent on

thene is a fundamental contra-

rambling castles, Turkish palaces third world war? Again, its support and dietibar between these 1:40 not, rather, the Soviet encouragement of the World concepts of the "possibility of peaceful co-existence" and the

to time insisted on the launching a

of the Soviet attitude to wards the outside world has · been woven from these two contradictory concepts-the possibility of peaceful co- existence and the inevit ability of war.

Was

Postwar Policy

try

was.

functions

and

mammoth muscums, that

lined the high bluffs. It was in Inevitability of military Government's own persistent "Pente" Council, the Sovietes inevitablity of war with the

'The Revolution' a modern house of this kind, the conflict between the Soviet, belief in the Inevitability of emment Inevitably nourishes

property of Mr John Barry Ryan, Union and the "capitalist war, and the actions it took Weston suspicious of its true capitalist world”?

that Mr Anthony Eden stayed. Powers". The whole pattern that dissipated such goodwill?

consequent upon this belief, intentions. For the movement is

THERE are some so obviously the mouthpiece of Would it not really help to dances, dinners-still taking

Newport might possibly slago Soviet propaganda that it fosters clear the air of misunderstanding place, but when 100 sit down to a come-back as a glittering social the belief that the Soviet Union at the Malenkov Government diner it is on exceptional occa- resort if these new, more modest stiá conskiers the issue to be one categorically declared that Slatin | slon. The houses that cost a houses become popular among

"postponing war with the was wrong when he said that couple of million dollars to build the American rich. capitalist world," of delaying it war was inevitable, a right and Ave or six million to furnish until the proletarian revolution when he said that peaceful co- look forlorn.

Fortunately for Newport's THE entire course of Russian Th

starts in Europe,” "

the existence of the two systems was

future, there are three Newports, postwar polity demonstrates colonial

nevolution 15 fully possible? To ride two horses at My driver sold: "I remember There is the Society Newport, that the Soviet Government has matured" or "until the capitalists the same tine has always been a the time when there wer: sinking into the sands; there is still not discarded the suspicions fight each other."

risky business. tho Central

regiments of waiters dressed up the Navy Newport, vigorous, and distrust engendered by the Committee of the Supreme interventienist

democratic, and free spending: parled" of the Soviet, Litvinov said in Decem- carly

and there is the Old Town Now- years of the Russian ber 1929 that the Soviet Union Revolution-in spite of the fact

port. had no imperialist appetitles, that such sentiments no longer no destro 10 enslave other have any basis in realty.

that it was "thoroughly

with the idea of. There is no influential body peace and wholly devoid of ag of opinion in the "capitalist gressive intentions"; all of world that seeks to intervene which, he neserted, was "In it in the affairs of the Soviet self a powerful factor making Ucion in order to change its for peace."

system of government. But

Reporting

pooped

to

Stalin Report

there

in bellef, widely and strongly held in, the West, that

the Soviet Government aids and

abets movements aimed at the

we succeed in postponing war with the capitalist world, a war with the non-Soviet world?:

The

LOOKS NOW DON'T COUNT

BA

WITH THE

LADIES

by RENE MacCOLL

It is

The Navy occupies one of the. two main bases of the Allonife Fleet, pours across from its own island'and invades the bars and 'dives which line Thames Stroot,

I found the-sallors eager to talk and looking forward to, the visit of H.M.S. Superb. A petty officer said: "The Superb was here about three yours ago and the British and, Americans got along fine together, Ask anyone. Your boys livened things up.".

Relying on tourists.

ASKED if there hadn't been any arguments about Marshall Aid or financial aid, but the petty officer sald: "No, sir, we leave that to tho politicians."

among

the

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overthrow of the democratie PACK from Washington chief done by Kinsey. "IN

together, and went in early one the same month

of the system.

but same year, Stalin in his re-

"But you owe it to yourself!" the

morning and bought it. I was memory

standing there examining, my port to the 15th Congress of the If this belief is well-founded lingers on... The forth

Succinct!

trophy while the manager of Communist Party of the Soviet and there la abundant evi- coming Report on Américan

the shop was in another room Union, said: "We must not for dence to support it then what Women, by Professor Kin- WHILE the Big Threo at the back writing out get Lenin's remark that our credence can be given to Soviet

Farelen Ministers were receipt, when in came a lady of work of reconstruction will do claims, that the USSR desires Bey (remember how his first pend a great deal on whether no more than to live at peace report, on the men, created discussing the Far East at the pleasant demeanour who point- State Department tho othered at the table in forthright a national sensation a few day, France's Georges Bidault style and inquired: "How much which is evitable but which

years back?) is already launched Into a spiritet des do you want for that?" may be delayed either until the death there has been a tendency product.

It is true that since Stalin's having an unexpected by cription of the "terrible terrain" Gently explained that, far -Navy Newport is not worrying proletarian revolution starts in

over which the French and from planning to sell I had too much about what's going on LANDLORD & TENANT (AMDT.) Exuperar until the colonial to modify Soviet policy vis-a

Vietnam. forces have to fight

only that moment bought. Iler In Washington. There is Bother revolution

vis the The theme of

Although the new book in Indo-China. His eloquence faco fell. "Too bad she sald wery, however, about a reces fully mature, or

co-existence having has been shrouded behind was

"But then I probably wouldn't slan, and particularly grown dually, until the capitalista fight peaceful

I considerable, as ho been

forward brought

cace each other for, the sharing of

amphically described the al- have been able to afford? it. almost as again,

shopkeepers in the many publicity most impenetrable jungles and anyway." capitalist Coverz (the colonies."

ments" as such are, at the time stimulating "security" mea- dense forests of the region. And with that Miss Agaiha recession. It has scarcely any Newport is sensitive about a

The subacquer t

of writing, no longer depleted sures as an atom research.

Christio Tett. After this had continued for

How about industryan electrical appliance Soviet foreign policy showed as incorrigible warmongers. The station, one finding in it has some timo, Lord Salisbury entitling your next effort (The | 20 that the Kremlin attached little attack has been shifted and already "leaked." roused himself and observed: Case of the Elusive Table, relles ont about

on tourists for its "Heavily wooded country It is that physical appearance what?" grand counts 'almost not at all in iti-,"m pressed by Stalin

romantic An article in Trud of May 9, Polring a woman's above) that prevalled, distating 1983 illustrated the trend he feelings. The fatteet budness action notably aggresion warmongers, it now says, "are man, sccording to the profes against Finland, and against the heads of

time my wife has been Poland in allanos with Nazi canoon, mercar monopolies, so has as much chance as the BACK in London: For some

In short autort-muscled Apollosange

coveting a pretty table on view Germany that was la funda all those who are prepared to This how set the alarm bells in a shop window in Chelsea's mental opposition, to Litvinov's the fate of mankind on the jangling for firms which have King's Home circular inb, claim,

altar of maximum prodita."...... been doing a rouring business with a gay birtir y and flowers

welling femate diets to roly painted on to a black back

„Americana (høy, have: ground. (cires 1840) ARKAKOR MISS Conca new Finally, I took a look at mo? Offset possible mnias bank eccitate pulled my

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Ruminative

OVERHEARD A certain foreign ambassador in Lon don found himself witting next to Soviet Ambassador Malik at dinner the other night. He asked him: "And hojo are things in Rusia?" There was a pouse, “Than [Minlić" replied Puthinatively! “We are habille zum ers callens harve

snorley.

-The tourists, now are malřily famdios and Kirlends of the wallen. The hotel where I am staying has mome of theed Navy relativer and they are people who „don't mind going into dinner in her shirt-leeves Back without- tiony

Boclety Nesyport would have bean shooked. Not that the Navy would mind. The sallors repent whst, my drivet tokt part would be

town