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Better known in the U. S. than Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, 52, is his younger brother, Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, 48, recent British Ambassador to the U. S. (1920-24) and previously Principal of McGill University, Montreal...
...ineptitude" of Sir Auckland Geddes (onetime [ 1920-24 ] British Ambassador at Washington), the "tender bosom" of Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer), the "ignorance, stupidity or arrogance" of the British Commonwealth of Nations-all were last week rebuked by a patriotic U. S. woman-Miss Sophy Stanton, moderately famed granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin McMasters Stanton...
Indignant because Sir Auckland had carped at the U. S. Chinese policy, Miss Stanton at great length cabled her retorts to the editor of the London Times. Her message consisted chiefly in references to Wartime intrigues by military men, who had tried, she said, to force General Pershing to put his troops under French and British commanders. Miss Stanton had read about these intrigues in War books by Generals James Guthrie Harbord and Robert Lee Bullard...
...state (TIME, Feb. 28, p. 24) few doctors abandon medicine to become famed in other fields; but your list of those otherwise famed is so inadequate that I'm having the audacity to name a few- Rabelais, Agassiz, Schiller, Keats, Goldsmith, Steinmetz, John Locke, Mungo Park, Sir Auckland Geddes, S. Weir Mitchell, Joseph Hergesheimer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry C. Rowland and now Warwick Deeping. The enumeration might be continued, but these will suffice. THOMAS H. MERKLE...
Concluding with the official hauteur of his potent brother (Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, one-time [1920-24] Ambassador to the U. S.,) Sir Eric Geddes said: "You are aware, gentlemen, that our new air service from England via Egypt to India will be inaugurated on Jan. 1. I have the honor to announce that Sir Samuel Hoare (British Secretary of State for Air) and Lady Maude (Sir Samuel's wife) will travel as passengers on the first of our regularly scheduled flights from Great Britain to India...