Of the lighter sides. of political rife nothing has been more stimulating to the imagination than the gossip about the "Cliveden Set." Everyone who goes up the Thames from Maiden head knows Cliveden House, the huge brown mansion of Lord and. Lady Astor, high on the Buckinghamshire hills above the famous Cliveden woods, Here it is supposed, Lady Astor, who is quite a power in politics, with Lord Astor moving vaguely and uneasily in the back: ground, gathers about her congenial friends, Lord Londonderry, Lord Lothian, Mr. Geoffrey Dawson, editor of "The Times," and others {a con-Jeoct schemes for handing over colon-to Germany and making us all Fascists, Who started this intriguing story fs not clear. Lord Lothian who recently denied ig with some heat says it was the invention of a Communist paper, deliberately concocted to create class prejudice. Yet one' would rather like to think it true. It could do no possible harm. No amount of Lady Astors could stop the permanent officials from following their own ideas in foreign policy. 'And the name has a sort of grand-manner 18th century flavour, ike the Cave and the Cabal. 'The' Thames, too, is the classical "home of such intrigues, Not many miles above Cliveden is Medmenham, the headquarters of Wilkes and the Hell-fire Club. But of course Lady Astor is well' known for her teetotal prin-special TO THE "KON."
London, May 25, Lawyers and: doctors, faking note Jerowded the Divoreo Court yester JGay to hear the Airst batch of insane ity cases under the recent Herbert JAct, which, among other things, Jextends the grounds for dissolution Jot marriage by including desertion for three years, cruelty and habitual Jdrunkenness, and incurable insanity lof at least five years' duration, Diticulties arose from "the willingness of doctors to testify that patients were incurably—insane They preferred to" phrase a case instead of "incur contrast with the usual quick-jate divorces, the President, Sir Boyd Merriman, took two hours to try the rst case, and then con Jgratulated the official solicitor the way he had safeguarded the interests of an allegedly insane wit The last case of the day was petition by the octogenarian ex-Colonial administrator, Sir Frank JSwettenham, who is secking a dissolution of his 60-year-old marriage. The hearing of the sult, which is being defended, will take place to-
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