Word: allsebrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anything but simple is the great legal mind of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, long the Empire's highest-paid lawyer. But one day last week he was suddenly congratulated by almost every London newspaper on being the author of what Britons dubbed good-humoredly "Simple Simon...
Acting Head of the extremely active British Government last week was the Home Secretary, Sir John Allsebrook Simon, whose functions are normally the sinecure of preserving order in the well-behaved British Isles and advising His Majesty in cases where the royal prerogative of pardon should be exercised...
...Flying Sam" had been silenced in London last week by arthritis but his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, courtly Sir John Allsebrook Simon, now Home Secretary, took up the Empire theme. To a gathering of sturdy Britons at Cleckheaton in Yorkshire, Sir John cried: "Our moral authority is extremely high...
...John Allsebrook Simon is tall, bland, very British. The breadth of his shoulders is accentuated by a neck long yet not too long. Smooth and pink, the face of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs takes on at will an innocent, babyish expression, flashes his "lightning smile" or congeals into withering hauteur. Throughout the Empire "John," as his few intimates call him, is famed as Britain's most highly remunerated barrister. Slow in walk and gesture he is lightning quick of mind and he is tireless. Last week he became Chairman of the League of Nations...
Simon v. Davis, Meanwhile Sir John Allsebrook Simon had flown from London to Geneva. As he entered the Hotel des Bergues he was pounced upon by Norman H. Davis, U. S. Delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference, who angrily protested assertions in the House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain giving the impression that the U. S. Disarmament Delegates had been consulted about the various Lausanne agreements and had tacitly approved them...