War brings strange contrasts. If the Duke and Duchess of Kent go to Kensington Palace, among their near neighbours will be M. and Mme Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador and his wife. Even Hitler and his gang are hardly more unpopular just now iban Stalin, Molotov & Ca. Yet the retirement of other Ambassadors is about to make M. Maisky the senior of the Diplomatic Body in London, and thus it will be Mme Maisky's duty to instruct the wives of other diplomats in their Court and social duties, Every new ambassador or minister and his wife will have to call as early as possible on Mme Maisky, and she will present the
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