Lady Nancy Astor sputtered with indignation. Since 1938 she has been denying charges that the group of influential Britons who once gathered at her husband's old estate, Cliveden, were pro-Nazi. And now the story was up again, with Joachim von Ribbentrop's request that members of the Cliveden Set be called as witnesses in his defense.
Snapped Lady Astor: "Ribbentrop has never been to Cliveden and he came only once to St. James [the Astors' London house]. Then he gave me the Nazi Heil-Hitler salute and I said 'Stop that nonsense with me.' "
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