Daily Mirror dated Friday November 30th
1934
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Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent was the
younger brother of Edward who became Edward VIII, Albert who became George VI
and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
His bride was Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark who was
a first cousin to the future Duke of Edinburgh. Her father was cousin to Czar
Nicholas II of Russia. “Why Greece and Denmark?” I hear you ask. ‘Twas because
her Grandfather George I of Greece was actually Danish and was elected to the
position of King of Greece by the Greek National Assembly.
The marriage lasted until George was killed in a RAF Short
Sunderland flying boat on it’s way to Iceland in 1942. Marina died in 1968 of a
brain tumour.
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Prince George was the black sheep of George V’s Royal
Family. He was bi-sexual and addicted to cocaine. Before and after his marriage
he had a string of affairs that included novelist Barbara Cartland, musical
actress Jessie Mathews, the son of the Argentine ambassador, future Russian spy
Anthony Blunt and, it is rumoured, Noel Coward. He was blackmailed by a male
prostitute and had at least one illegitimate son.
George's interest in Jazz music was portrayed in the recent
Stephen Poliakoff TV production ‘Dancing on the Edge’.
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Wedding or no wedding, life goes on then as now - tobacco
smugglers, rail crossing deaths, hand-bag snatching, a bus crash, factory
blaze, a Judge who could face the afternoon session and a gas leak.
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This piece about the son of Sir Hector Murray Macneal
certainly doesn’t tell the whole story. The boy, Carroll Livingstone Wainwright
Jr, was in fact Sir Hector’s stepson and had been born in America. His mother
married Sir Hector in America and for the first two years the family, including
Carroll’s older brother and sister, travelled America and Canada. In November
1934 they left the eldest boy in school in New York and moved to Bermuda. This
was when Carroll stowed away on the ship Queen of Bermuda on route for New York
where he was reunited with his real father and his grandparents.
I don’t know what happened after that but in 1981 the United
States Trust Company of New York elected to their board a Carroll Livingston
Wainwright Jr who was a partner in the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy who apparently was in the Havard Law School Class of 1951.
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On December 8th 1934, a regular London to
Brisbane Air-Mail service began using the Imperial Airways’ C Class Empire
Flying Boats from the UK to Karachi then Indian Trans-Continental aircraft to
Singapore and finally Qantas planes to Australia. The journey of 12,700 miles
was the world’s longest air route and took around 12 days.
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The Jane’s Journal comic strip was started in 1932 by Norman
Pett in the Daily Mirror and lasted, although renamed 'Jane' until 1959.
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Although proposed 10 years earlier in the Cadogan Report,
corporal punishment in UK prisons as part of a criminal’s sentence was not
abolished until September 1948. It continued to be used as punishment for
prisoners who injured prison officers up until 1962 and was officially
abolished in 1967.
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In just less than 5 years Britain’s efforts to
re-arm against German re-arming turned out to be prudent but inadequate. By
1950 we were indeed into another and probably more deadly arms race as the Cold
War saw the West stockpiling nuclear weapons against the threat of Soviet
nuclear attack.
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This was not the infamous anti-Semitic 1940
German version of the 'Jew Suss' but a more sympathetic treatment filmed in England.
It was known as 'Power' in the USA.
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No television - just good old fashioned steam
radio. The BBC, broadcasting National and Regional programmes, was obviously
under the strict dictatorship of John Reith. Classical recitals, light
orchestral music and informative talks were the order of the day. You would
have had to tune into Warsaw to find any of that scandalous Jazz music.
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Records? Big round things that revolved at 78
rpm with a hole in the middle. It can’t be a co-incidence that this advert
appears on the Radio page with the tag line “Hear what you like – when you
like”. I have Rex 8252 Primo Scala’s ‘Isle of Capri’ in a cupboard somewhere. I
must dig it out.
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