Thomas Eardley Bromley its secession from the United Arab Republic, then ambassador to Algeria from 1964 until Algeria, along with other members of the OAU, broke off diplomatic relations in December 1965 over Rhodesia. Bromley's last ambassadorship was to Ethiopia 1966–69. In 1968, while addressing a gathering of 2,000 university students in Addis Ababa, he was stoned by demonstrators against the Smith regime in Rhodesia. In 1944 Bromley married Diana Pratt, daughter of Sir John Pratt, also a diplomat, and niece of the actor Boris Karloff whose real name was William Henry Pratt. In 1958 she killed their two sons and attempted suicide;
Henry Pratt Co an additional plant was purchased for the manufacture of valves. The plant, located at 900 Depot Avenue in Dixon, Illinois, was composed of buildings dating back to the Civil War. After the Civil War, the buildings housed the Grand Detour Plow Works, which was a forerunner of the John Deere Company. This plant was closed in 2007. There was a great demand for valves of all types in the decades following World War II, as the construction industry boomed and corresponding municipal projects grew. As a result, Henry Pratt Co added ball valves, check valves and various types of butterfly