Losing One's Books
By ROSE MACA-ULAY I T happened to me last May to lose my home with all contents in a night of that phenomenon that we oddly called Blitz, though why we should use the German for......
The Germans Of The Weimar Republic Were Awed And Startled
by Lord D'Abernon. It seemed unbelievable to them that the Ambassador of a victorious Power should appear completely unaware that any victory had been won ; it seemed......
All Of Us Possess A Childhood Memory Which, At The
touch of some association of ideas, leaps up vividly from the past, with every detail of shape and light and sound. . When I was a child of six Sir Edgar Vincent was Governor of......
The Graph Of Lord D'abemon's Life Assumed Strange...
see him first as the handsome Etonian, ambitious and a trifle selfish. I see him as an ensign in the Brigade of Guards, more decorative and extravagant than anything that even......
From The Outset His Central Objective Was The Restoration Of
European security. He was the first to see that this object could only be attained by a relaxation of the military and economic , clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. From the......
Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON E DGAR VINCENT, first Viscount D'Abernon, has died in a nursing home in Hove at the age of eighty-two. It is some years now since illness struck at that......
It Might Have Been Thought That In 1897 Edgar Vincent
had reached the end of his career and his ambition. He became an English country gentleman. He increased his fortune by wise investments ; he sat for seven years as Member for......
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