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The Interallied Mission to Poland also included French diplomat Jean Jules Jusserand and the British diplomat Lord Edgar Vincent D ' Abernon.
He urged D ' Abernon and Jusserand to pack their bags and make as decent an exit as possible.
Constantin Silvestri-Conductor, Composer, Pianist with a Foreword by Yehudi Menuhin ( Lord Menuhin of Stoke D ' Abernon ), 70 illustrations, 304 pp. ISBN 1-900496-12-7 ( Kitzinger, London )
* Stoke D ' Abernon
The nearest stations are Leatherhead, Cobham & Stoke D ' Abernon and Bookham.
They included: French diplomat, Jean Jules Jusserand ; Maxime Weygand, chief of staff to Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Supreme Commander of the victorious Entente ; and British diplomat, Lord Edgar Vincent D ' Abernon.
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* Sarah married Sir Francis Vincent of Stoke D ' Abernon, Surrey
# REDIRECT Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D ' Abernon
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D ' Abernon, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS ( 19 August 1857 – 1 November 1941 ) was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author.
Vincent was the youngest son of Sir Frederick Vincent, 11th Baronet, of Stoke D ' Abernon ( 1798 – 1883 ) and his second wife, Maria Copley ( d. 1899 ).
In July 1914 he was raised to the peerage as Baron D ' Abernon of Esher, Surrey, upon the recommendation of the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith.
D ' Abernon was part of the Interallied Mission to Poland in July 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War.
From 1920 to 1925 D ' Abernon was the British Ambassador to Berlin.
On 9 February 1925 D ' Abernon wrote that it was necessary " to abandon the view that Germans are such congenital liars that there is no practical advantage in obtaining from them any engagement or declaration.
Lord Vansittart called D ' Abernon " the pioneer of appeasement ".
General J. H. Morgan also called D ' Abernon " the apostle of ‘ appeasement ’ and did not believe in the possibility, much less the probability, of a German military revival ".
He joined the Privy Council in 1920, was created Baron D ' Abernon, of Esher in the county of Surrey, in 1914 and elevated to Viscount D ' Abernon, of Esher and Stoke d ' Abernon in the county of Surrey, in 1926.
After his retirement from the foreign service, D ' Abernon devoted his time to directorships of numerous domestic organizations such as the Lawn Tennis Association, the Race Course Betting Control Board, the Medical Research Council, and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, and the Royal Mint advisory committee.

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One factor was the statement of Senator J. W. Fulbright ( D ) of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.
On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D. C., which was placed under substantial military guard.
During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!
This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).
Doubleday assumed administrative duties in the defenses of Washington, D. C., where he was in charge of courts martial, which gave him legal experience that he used after the war.
A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!
First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.
One modern historian feels that it was Ealdred who was behind the compilation of the D version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and gives a date in the 1050s as its composition.
On 14 May 1234, Andrew, who had lost his second wife in the previous year, married Beatrice D ' Este, who was thirty years younger than himself.
Res Gestae ( Rerum gestarum Libri XXXI ) was originally in thirty-one books, but the first thirteen are lost ( modern historian T. D.
* At the height of his career, Carnegie was the second-richest person in the world, behind only John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil.
The stylized snake-like " D " logo, also used since the early days for the road uniforms, was slightly redesigned and a completely new shoulder patch introduced.
The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.
They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).
She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.
Pike died in Washington, D. C., aged 81, and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery ( against his wishes — he had left instructions for his body to be cremated ).
Ajmer ( Sanskrit Ajayameru ) was founded in the late 7th century A. D. by Ajayraj singh Chauhan.
* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.
The novel was published in 1982, when A. D. Sakharov was in exile in Nizhny Novgorod.
ArgoUML was originally developed at UC Irvine by Jason E. Robbins, leading to his Ph. D.
Her first published work was a critical evaluation of D. H. Lawrence called D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, which she wrote in sixteen days.

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