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Died. Sir William Robert ("Wullie") Robertson, 72, only Briton to rise from private in the British Army to Field Marshal; of a heart attack in the night; in London. He rose to Wartime chief of the Imperial General Staff by no spectacular feats, by detailed, hard-headed executive service. Making no secret of his backstairs origin (onetime hallboy), he educated himself, impressed Horatio Herbert Kitchener in the Boer War by doing jobs others had failed at. In the World War he believed in concentration on the Western front, opposed dispersal of Britain's armies in Mesopotamia, Suez, Eastern Africa...
...Ronald Lindsay] handed Statesman Stimson a heavy brown envelope tied with blue cord. Inside, the brawny Briton explained, was another note from His Majesty's Government on War Debts...
...Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the U. S., marched briskly up the front steps of "Woodley," suburban home of Secretary of State Stimson. He was promptly ushered into the study. After brief greetings Sir Ronald handed Statesman Stimson a heavy brown envelope tied with blue cord. Inside, the brawny Briton explained, was another note from His Majesty's Government on War Debts- a note, he estimated, "about as long as the Pickwick Papers." In triple-spaced typewriting it covered 26 foolscaps, on the first of which was embossed a large lion & unicorn...
Irak was "planted" in more senses than one when the League of Nations slipped it like an egg into the British nest in 1921 with the status of a Mandate. Probably Britons will always control most of the Kingdom's Mosul oil through their ably drawn contracts. Last week. however, Mother Briton clucked loudly at Geneva, announced that Irak has officially hatched into an "Independent Kingdom." To certify Irak's independence Irak was made a member state of the League of Nations and batches of League statesmen made speeches...
...nonsense. He had a chance last week to sell his meters to the municipality of Brighton, famed seaside resort. John Guthrie Sutherland packed his brief case, put on his hat and went down to see about it. He also took his "brolly" (umbrella), an object without which no Briton ever feels comfortable...