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...Encyclopedia Britannica...
...Government were "cowards" and "pol-troons". These cries were hollow, ignored by the Baldwin Cabinet like so much wind, because in fact the Empire has now scrapped all reliance on the League of Nations and is arming at breakneck speed-not necessarily for war, per-haps for Pax Britannica to be imposed on restless Europe in the future. It was more than ever clear last week that Sir Samuel Hoare is now the spokesman of His Majesty's Government to the King's subjects on this greatest shift in British policy since the War. Sounding the new keynote...
...Romana rested on the Roman Legions. Pax Britannica rests on the Empire defense forces-particularly the Navy-and they ought to be much stronger than they are! . . . I hope one of the results-perhaps a good result-that will emerge from the difficulties and disappointments we have suffered in recent months will be that we will take note of the weaknesses that have appeared in the League of Nations and shall do our best to remedy them...
Announcing that their new edition would list the Dionne Quintuplets, the publishers of Encyclopaedia Britannica breathlessly declared: "You may look in vain in the great 24 volumes for your Shirley Temples, but the even tenderer years of the five phenomenal children have achieved a memorial that took all of Methuselah's 900 years and all of Solomon's 500 wives to get for those two ancient worthies. Never before in the 168 years of Britannica history has a living child been given space in its pages...
...hobo that Handy began the musical career that has earned him mention in the Encyclopaedia Britannica for his fathering of the blues. He was the son of a Baptist preacher who considered it disgraceful to be a musician. Young Handy liked nothing so much as his battered cornet or a bit of close harmony with the boys on the street. When they heard of the World's Fair of 1893, four of them organized a quartet, hopped a freight to Chicago. There they remained jobless, finally had to work their way back South. But Handy's ambition persisted...