GUESTS AT CHEQUERS
MEMORABLE WEEK-END
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, British Official Wireless. . ; (Received. 3rd February, 11 a.m.) ' _ RUGBY, 3rd February. Tho American, delegates to the Naval Conference were the guests of the1; Prime Minister at Chequers yesterday, and were conducted by Mr. Mac Donald on a tour of Buckinghamshire", visiting many places which have historic links with their ancestral New England. Tho first halt was made at Milton's cottage at Chalfont, St. Giles, which the great poet used as a refuge during the plague of 1665, and where ho, meditated "Paradise Regained." The visitors were even more impressed with : Perm's simple grave near Jordans, a meeting-house of tho early Quakers, and with the farmhouse and barn built from timbers of the: Mayflower, in which the early settlers voyaged to New England. The graves of Burke, Edmund Waller, and i Dißraeli and other notable places of interest were also visited.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 28, 3 February 1930, Page 9
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149GUESTS AT CHEQUERS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 28, 3 February 1930, Page 9
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