The Marquis of Reading, former Viceroy of India, is seriously ill, it was learned here today. He is suffering from cardiac asthma.
The Marquis was the first Jew in England to hold the positions of Attorney-General, Lord Chief Justice and British Ambassador to the United States and, for a brief span in 1931, he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the first National Government. He is seventy-five years old.
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