Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan...
...hopes of naval limitation Sir Esme Howard may have raised can now be decently buried." London's political dopesters thought that the "Sir Esme scandal" will hurt the Conservatives badly in Britain's coming election...
...difficult to forecast what must be the reaction upon British opinion of this assertion of independence as the goal of a great political party, by persons who would claim the title of responsible politicians. Those in Great Britain who sympathize most warmly with the idea of India attaining at the earliest possible moment the status of any of the other great dominions of the Crown will find the ground cut from under their feet if British opinion ever becomes convinced that so-called dominion status was valued by India only as a stepping-stone to a complete severance...
...Princes in New Delhi, most powerful pronouncements against what several of them called "the menace of independence." Each little Raja or big Maharaja read his speech from a typewritten copy, and the perfect unanimity of the proceeding was an impressive tribute to what is called "the genius of Great Britain for governing Backward Peoples...
Married. Mrs. Dorothy Harvey Thompson, daughter of the late George Harvey, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain; and Augustus Smith Cobb, Manhattan banker; in Manhattan. Both were divorcees...