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...Bishop of Edinburgh. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand. As a boy, he lived in America and attended a private school on Washington Square. While an undergraduate at Cambridge, he wrote two novels. One of them, The Wooden Horse, was his first published story. Before this, however, at the age of twelve, he is said to have written a novel concerning Guy Fawkes for the delectation of the family cook. For a time he worked as a journalist on The London Standard. He is popular in London; but it is only at certain times that he allows himself...
Patrick Geddes (no relation to Eric and Auckland) is one of the most versatile geniuses of modern times and is distinguished in several lines of scientific and social endeavor. He is 69 years old and first became famous as a biologist and authority on sex. He is the co-author of Sex and of Evolution (in the Home University Library) and of The Evolution of Sex with Professor J. Arthur Thomson, editor of the great four-volume Outline of Science...
...Among the other speakers were the French Ambassador, M. Jules Jusserand; the British Ambassador, Sir Auckland Geddes; the Belgian Ambassador, Baron de Cartier; and General Lord, Director of the Budget. General Pershing was expected to speak but did not appear...
...legitimately express that opinion, so long as it in no way interferes with or embarasses the government in its national policies or foreign relations. Admiral Sims has always stayed well within these bounds; the convention has overstepped them by its references to the British war debt and Sir Auckland Geddes. Aside from these considerations, the convention has apparently forgotten the minor detail that Admiral Sims did not make his observations upon Ireland in an official capacity, and hence cannot by any chance be court martialed. Indeed, it is very doubtful if the Admiral will suffer from this denunciation...
...after expressing its sympathy for Ireland and the cause of the "Irish Republic", proceeded to demand the court-martial of Admiral Sims because of "his abuse of official position and misrepresentation of the Irish cause"; to agree upon a boycott of English goods in America; to insist that Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador, be recalled for attempting to "dictate the policy and government of our people"; and to demand full payment of England's war debt to the United States...