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...Caesar." Britannia is said to have ruled the waves of all the oceans. Other powers have been content to rule a sea apiece. Rome was the Mediterranean's master. The Kaiser ruled the Baltic. Mussolini claims the Adriatic. To every sea its Caesar?to the Caribbean the mighty...
Significance. To hear Sir Thomas, apostle of "Rule Britannia" one would suppose the Mahatma, apostle of "Rule India," entirely down and out. Actually, Gandhi, a tense, passionate ascetic, usually clad only in a loin cloth and a sash, was easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The Occidental press was poorly represented, and only recently* has the picturesque story of the Congress come to light. It sat in a great tent of hand-woven khaddar, at Gauhati, in remote Upper India. Great palms and forest trees canopied the Congress tent, the 5,000 delegates and spectators slept...
With such words a wiry little man, flushed and fervent, reminded five Dominion premiers* and six Indian potentates,† of the might and glory that are Britannia's. The scene was "No. 10 Downing Street," famed residence of easy, genial, astute Premier Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain. But the fiery speaker, "The Pocket Hercules" who thundered Empire, was the Rt. Hon. Leopold C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies. He it was who succeeded in vitalizing with emotional cohesion the third post-War Imperial Conference last week...
...instant later the Government radio broadcast a few sentences which sent tingles of emotion coursing up British spines. Britannia had muddled through...
...suffragists called the attention of laymen to the fact that Miss Christabel Pankhurst is by no means to be confused with her mother (Emmeline) or her sister (Estelle). Christabel is the Editor of Britannia and a joint founder with her mother of the British Women's Party. Mrs. Pankhurst remains active as Honorary Treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union. Estelle is perhaps the most violent and versatile of the three. She edits The Workers' Dreadnought and Germinal. She has "hunger struck" 14 times, and always had to be forcibly fed. She has founded: 1) Clinics, cost-price...