In front of Captain Anthony Eden's hotel at Geneva last week nose-holding Communists tied an oil can to a British flag tagged "Shall we fight for this?" After similarly demonstrating in front of the hotels of other delegations, they poured the oil on the flag, burned the Union Jack.
Same day civil servants in Whitehall scooped journalists by announcing that
British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare had broken his nose while ice-skating at Zuoz. "Flying Sam" told reporters when they arrived that he had skinned his nose, continued to go out skating with...
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