Queen Victoria's onetime page boy, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, who today is the Socialist Baron Ponsonby, thundered at a Quaker meeting in London last week demands for the arrest of British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper. Reason: Mr. Duff Cooper said fortnight ago that the European situation is "far more critical today than in 1914" (TIME, June 22). Cried Lord Ponsonby: "He should be arrested as a deliberate, dangerous and disgraceful scaremonger! He has shown himself to be a halfwit. The only fit place for him is Broadmoor! [asylum for the...
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