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...Honor!" While every German could read the full Lindbergh text in his morning paper, no Briton could read the full text in his-the reason being nothing more sinister than that even the wealthiest British Press lords are habitually too parsimonious to order the full text of anything from abroad. Since most Britons assumed that Colonel Lindbergh, the Empire's guest, was thinking of the safety of his own home in Britain, gratitude for what he had said gushed. "I think Lindbergh's speech was wholesome and timely. All honor to him!" wrote London News-Pundit Henry Wickham...
...delegate, including China's Chengting T. Wang, spoke eloquently upon the ill will rampant in the world today. But when the Rotary Club of Barking, England proposed to put the united shoulder of Rotary International behind the wheel of Peace, the convention split. Cried Rotarian Cyril Franklin, a Briton from Hereford: "If Rotary wants to leave its past policy of inspiring individual Rotarians to active support of outside peace movements, we will be playing with fire. If Rotary splits into parties with national points of view, what will be left? The resolution is full of dynamite-apt to blow...
...First Briton to win the British Open championship since 1923 was Henry Cotton in 1934. Last week, Cotton got a record-breaking 67 in his first qualifying round. When a thunderstorm interrupted play later in the day, officials canceled all scores; including his. Cotton got a 68 the next day, finished one stroke back of Adams, one ahead of Sarazen...
...That has nothing whatever to do with it," snapped the Briton. "Smuggling from Hongkong is almost entirely conducted by Chinese of a low order, while North China's financial and economic status is being upset by Japanese and Koreans...
...bullying soldier; and Claudette Colbert, who cuddles up to the role of Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part of the Briton-with-a-past who com mits patrician misconduct with a willowy Lady Venetia (Rosalind Russell) in a ruined monastery in the desert while the sound track wallows in the Kashmiri Song...