Foreign News: A Home Is Not a Castle

Seven years ago Lady Garbett bought a 160-acre farm in the green and gently rolling county of Sussex. For years she had had no settled home while her colo nial officer husband, Sir Colin Garbett, was busy with reclamation and irrigation projects in India and the Middle East. Now, separated from him and tired of wandering, she wanted to settle down in the Elizabethan manor house with her daughter Susan, and run the farm.

Last week six trucks rolled up to the old manor house, and policemen stepped out under the copper beeches and laburnums. Admitted to the great house, one of...

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