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...movies also clearly proved that Referee Austen Lake blew his whistle before Seymour even received the ball, which he subsequently carried over the goal line, only to be called back...
Miss Chase has mastered almost too well the English fiction on which she lectures. She writes in the great genteel evasive tradition, clean as Jane Austen and rather sweeter. Windswept is a treasury of sound thoughts and syntax whose spiritual dimension is revealed in such passages as this...
...same shuffle new jobs went to Churchill's M.P. son-in-law, Edwin Duncan Sandys, who was made Financial Secretary of the War Office; to Richard Austen Butler, who, after ably defending the Government in Parliament as Under Secretary of the Foreign Office, was made President of the Board of Education...
Germany's most profitable export in 1940 was the New Order. In London last week solemn, 38-year-old Richard Austen Butler, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, told Britain's House of Commons what it cost five European nations annually to feed and house Adolf Hitler's armies of occupation. The figures came from published reports of the German Government, except in the case of The Netherlands, where, said Britain's Butler, they must be treated with reserve. The bill...
This was a full diplomatic retreat, for only through the prolonging of war in Europe can Japan hope to snatch more of East Asia. If there was any doubt that Spokesman Ishii was talking for his Government, it was dispelled by British Foreign Under Secretary Richard Austen Butler, who told the House of Commons that the mediation offer had been made official. This week Prime Minister Churchill received Japanese Ambassador Shigemitsu, turned the offer down...