GREAT BRITAIN: Peer's Pamphlet

Hastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford, follows the great tradition of the noble British individualist. A tall, cadaverous man of 52, dressed in blue serge and a green "ratcatcher" cap given him by his mother, he broods over the mating habits of spiders, has written a book on Parrots and Parrotlike Birds in Aviculture. Last week he published a new work, an anti-war pamphlet called What a Game! It put him back in the hot water he has stewed in for most of World War II.

Besides his zoological hobbies, the...

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