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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
Friday 15 January The official Coronation Programme was issued today. It would be idle to pretend that the change of monarchs has not taken the fire out of the national interest in the Coronation. King George VI and his consort are popular enough in a quiet way, but they do not arose any great enthusiasm. In society itself, the Queen is definitely unpopular. As Duchess of York she was regarded as a rather quiet, uninteresting, highly domesticated person, a little too Scots, if anything. But as Queen she is a little derided as lacking in glamour.
1 Show trial of Trotskyites, 19–29 January 1937, who were accused of plotting to kill Stalin and other leading members of Communist Party: the death sentence was passed on PiatakofF, Muralov, Guslavsky, Serebriakov, Livshitz, Bognslavsky, Knyazev, Rataichak, Norkin, Shestov, Turek, Grashe, Pushin.
2 Karl Bernhardovich (Sobelsohn) Radek (1885–1939): politician, journalist & leader-writer Izvestia until August 1936Google Scholar; member of Central Ctte. of Bolshevik party; leading member of Trotskyist opposition 1923; expelled from party 1927, re-instated 1929; arrested 1936; murdered by Gulag inmate.
3 Grigorii Lakovlevich (Brilliant) Sokol'nikov (1888–1939): Bolshevik from 1905; People's Commissionar of Finance 1921–6; Amb. to London 1929–32; Arrested 1936, sentenced to ten years; re-arrested, tried & shot.
4 According to The Times, 30 01 1937Google Scholar, given eight years.
5 Rothermere's valet.
6 Cecil Geraghty: Daily Mail foreign correspondent; author of The Road to Madrid (London: Hutchinson, 1937)Google Scholar, a pro-Nationalist account of the Spanish Civil War.
7 Ewan ‘Cammie’ Cameron: manager of Esmond Harmsworth's Mereworth estate.
8 John Morley (1838–1923): Lib. MP Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1883–95, Montrose Burgh 1896–1908; Chief Sec. for Ireland 1886, 1892–5; Sec. of State for India 1905–10, 1911; Ld. Pres, of Council 1910–14; cr. 1st Viscount.
9 Edward Grey (1862–1933): Lib. MP Berwick 1885–1916; US FO 1892–5; For. Sec. 1905–16; sue. 3rd Bart. 1882, cr. Viscount Grey of Fallodon 1916.
10 George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962): Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University 1927–40; author Grey of Fallodon (London: Longman, 1937).Google Scholar
11 Francis Yeats Brown (1886–1944): author, incl. The Bengal Lancer (1930)Google Scholar; Ass. Ed. Spectator 1926–1928.Google Scholar
12 General Francisco Franco (1892–1975): Leader of Nationalist revolt in Spain; Dictator from 1939 till death.
13 Edith Jessie Thompson: hanged in Holloway Prison 9 January 1923 along with lover Frederick Bywaters for the fatal stabbing of her husband 3 October 1922.
14 Ex-Marine, who along with his wife acted as butler & cook respectively for the Brooks family.
15 Josephe Jeanne Marie Antoinette (1755–93): wife of King Louis XVI, m. 1770. Deposed & executed.
16 W. Nugent Monck (1878–1958): founder Norwich Players 1911; Dir. of Maddermarket Theatre 1921–52.
17 William Cobbett (1763–1835): writer & champion of the poor; unsuccessful parlia. cand. 1821, 1826; MP Oldham 1832–5.
18 Eventually titled Can Chamberlain Save Britain?
