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...Social Credit? Adolf Hitler's first moves when he reached power were adroitly Conservative, and so last week were William Aberhart's. The new Premier began by deprecating the hostility to King George of the previous Cabinet and Legislature which voted that His Majesty was not to appoint another Lieutenant Governor to Alberta. Mr. Aberhart will be glad to advise the King to send one when the Yukon prospector's term expires...
...Dictator by demanding that Soviet schools be opened to every Russian child, even the moppets of onetime Tsarists, priests, capitalists and kulaks. According to a popular Soviet jest about Stalin, he roared: "Tell that old woman that if she doesn't shut up and mind her business, I'll appoint a new Widow of Lenin...
...Duke of Gloucester, whose tour of Australia last year was considered in the Dominion a hint that King George would like to appoint him its Governor General, was passed over last week when His Majesty finally acted on the advice of Premier Joseph Aloysius ("Honest Joe") Lyons...
General, did not insist that George V appoint another Australian to replace the present Governor General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, appointed by His Majesty with the indignant comment, "a man whom I have never seen...
...from King George, went out as Governor of South Australia in 1928, and since 1934 has been Governor of New South Wales. Thus Premier Lyons, famed as Australia's "Great Compromiser," went as far as Australian public opinion would permit last week in advising His Majesty to appoint as Governor General an Old Etonian, something no Dominion today cares to stomach...