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...back at No. 10 Downing Street to shake up the British Cabinet before it again faced the House of Commons. Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, the smart, young Jewish Liberal who seems never to take a vacation but fills British newspapers all summer with personal publicity about his "Belisha Beacon" and other traffic gadgets (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), was rewarded by promotion of his Ministry of Transport from sub-Cabinet to full Cabinet status. Minister of Agriculture, Walter Elliott, the tall, taciturn, sagacious Scot who has long been considered one of the Conservative Party's ablest younger men, was shelved...
...parade will start on Marlborough Street and proceed up to Beacon Hill. The marchers will then pass the State House, which they hope to occupy on January 3 and thereafter, and then will proceed on out to the Boston Garden for the final Victory rally of the party. At this meeting John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the National Committee, will make the principal address, and three will also be talks by Henry Cabot Lodge '24, candidate for U. S. Senator, John W. Haigis, candidate for Governor, and other aspirants for state and local offices...
...Harvard Landon-Knox Club and all Republicans from Harvard are due to meet at Fairfield and Marlborough Streets. The parade, complete with torchlights, red fire, and other paraphernalia furnished by the Committee, will wind its way up Beacon Hill, past the State House, and eventually end at the Boston Garden. Here John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the National Committee, will address the final Victory Rally of the party, at which over 18,000 people are expected. Also scheduled to speak are the candidates for state office, Henry Cabot Lodge '24, John W. Haigis, and others...
Simultaneously last week in Boston and in Philadelphia batons flicked into the air, releasing the music that marked the overture to the 1936-37 season. In Boston, Beacon Hillers, not content merely to clap their gloved hands, stood in deference to Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky who gravely bowed his thanks, peaked the afternoon with a peerless performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
Such an epoch-making statement should not be passed over lightly. Surely this disgraceful situation cannot be known on Beacon Hill; surely if the sacred kingfish of the State House were to find out that irregularities had attended his rise to the seat of power he could not go on as the hit-and-run servant of the people. And even should he feel that he could, this new voice of the people from Dorchester would not permit it, for he has a plan--and in all fairness, it is not a bad plan...