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...Manning's charges. Last year Bishop Manning sternly forbade Dr. Coffin's performance of a communion service in another Manhattan Episcopal church, as ecclesiastically illegal. Dr. Coffin replied by inviting the Episcopalians to his own communion service at Union Theological. Last week he answered Bishop Manning by rescinding his assent to preach in the Church of the Ascension. His comment: "In view of Bishop Manning's sermon and the subsequent discussion, it seemed wise to withdraw, as I did not wish to be the means of promoting further controversy...
...action of the library officials in requiring all users of the library to submit their books and bags for inspection can be met only with assent. The frequent disappearance of volumes last year at an unprecedented total necessitates a drastic means of prevention in order to insure the proper supply of books for the users. Whatever inconvenience may be imposed on the members of the library is an unavoidable adjunct to the protection of the majority...
...Canada as in Great Britain tariff changes go into effect the day after they are announced by the responsible minister, but subject to confirmation by Parliament plus Royal assent. If these are not forthcoming a most awkward series of rebates and payments has to ensue between the state and people who have imported goods meanwhile, but such is the law. At Ottawa last week Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning raised a terrific commotion in the Dominion Parliament by bringing in a budget the chief feature of which was 500 tariff changes, the whole so controversial that it seems likely...
...hours earlier George V had assented, as Emperor of India, to what was about to be done. His assent had been cabled by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin. Making grotesque patterns of light and shadow, the flashlight danced about the bungalow until it picked out sleeping St. Gandhi who stirred, awakened blinking, grasped the situation at once and quietly observed...
...That great jurist the Earl of Birkenhead stretched truth very slightly by remarking: "If the Prime Minister advises the King to cut off his own head His Majesty is expected to assent...