Londoners were puzzled, the other day, to see a red flag flying from the highest point of a famous Park Lane hotel. The telephone wires buzzed incessantly for several hours with enquiries for an explanation. Had the hotel gone Red? But officials were able to reassure enquirers that the emblem was not the Soviet flag, but the standard of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, who was visiting London, Apart from Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park demonstrations, red flags seldom appear in London. One is sometimes seen flying in Kensington Palace: Gardens, perhaps the most aristocratic and exclusive street in town, over the home pf the Soviet Ambassador. His neighbours include the Duke of Marlborough, the Marquis of Cholmondeley and Mr. Harry Oakes. The last-named is the Canadian multi-millionaire who discovered Canada's richest gold-mine by accident on the same day that he had been thrown off a train for riding
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