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...church, a plain Methodist Church. With 8,000,000 communicants, 20,000,000 constituents and 29,000 ministers, the new church will be the nation's largest Protestant body. Ratification of the merger of the three churches, proposed three summers ago (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935), requires assent of three-quarters of the conferences of each Methodist branch. Northern Methodists and the Methodist Protestants had ratified, and by last week in 30 of 42 Southern Methodist conferences, 90% of those voting favored the merger. Formal ratification must wait, however, on action by the Southern Church's annual conference next...
Arrived in London, His Majesty was graciously pleased to assent to the text of his Speech from the Throne, drawn up by the Chamberlain Cabinet, and to assent to its being read to the Lords and Commons last week by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham. This usual procedure of opening the last session of a Parliament did not necessitate the presence of Their Majesties, and Viscount Hailsham read with traditional decorum such phrases from the King's Speech as "the Queen...
...Tokyo last week, Cabinet Ministers scuttled in & out of Emperor Hirohito's moat-encircled palace. The assent of the Son of Heaven was required to dozens of decisions, most important of all to the drastic decision of the military high command to ship Japan's entire regular army -some 260,000 men-across the sea to China...
...legislation dealing with a particular case. His Majesty's Government are NOT prepared to introduce such legislation! Moreover, the matters to be dealt with are a common concern to the Commonwealth [Dominions, India, etc.] as a whole, and such a change could not be effective without the assent of all the Dominions. I am satisfied from inquiries I have made that this assent would NOT be forthcoming...
Shaw admired Morris' daughter from afar until on one occasion he saw her staring at him carefully and quite deliberately make "a gesture of assent with her eyes." Deciding that he could not, as a brother-Communist, commit Morris' "beautiful daughter to a desperately insolvent marriage," Shaw said nothing to her. Still he believed that in some mystic way they were betrothed, and that she knew it, was consequently stunned when she ran off with a Comrade named Sparling, who was even poorer than himself. Nor was that all, for the rival's possibilities of future eminence...