Honors

Some gaped at the names in the King's long Birthday List of honors last week. Some called it the most democratic Birthday List in Britain's history. All noted that rewards for loyal service to Great Britain had specially showered on those responsible for its waxing air power. Only one Briton was elevated to the peerage:

> John Maynard Keynes, unorthodox economist, New Deal adviser and, more recently, director of the Bank of England. Once cholerically opposed by classical financiers, he can now, as Baron Keynes, boost his theories in the House of Lords.

Others honored and their honors:

> Air Marshal Arthur Travers Harris chief of the R.A.F. bomber command and father of the 1,000-plane raids on the Reich-Knight Commander of the Bath.

> Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, head of the R.A.F.--Knight Grand Cross of the Bath.

> Hungarian-born Alexander Korda famed movie producer--Knight Bachelor. Wife Merle Oberon may now be called Lady Korda.

> Frederick Handley Page, managing director of Handley Page, Ltd., producer of big bombers--Knight Bachelor.

> Charles Richard Fairey, chairman and managing director of Fairey Aviation Co., now head of the British Air Mission in Washington--Knight Bachelor.

> Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, hero of Cape Matapan--a baronet.

> Augustus E. John, famed artist-rebel and onetime gypsy-lover--the coveted Order of Merit. Once asked to take in evacuees, John said: "I want black ones. . . . Like them better than whites."

> Comedian Will Fyffe, Scottish music-hall idol and Buckingham Palace favorite, who has sung prodigiously to British military forces--Commander of the British Empire.

> Stanley Wicks, shop foreman number eight, maintenance unit of the Ministry of Aircraft Production--a British Empire Medal.

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