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...George V, King & Emperor, Defender of the Faith last week. Not since his grandmother Queen Victoria wrote her anonymous letter to the London Times has a British sovereign evinced such intense displeasure.* Again last week the Times served as vox Regis, spoke for the Crown words which set every Briton of birth and breeding a-bristle with indignation. It all began at Australia House. Situated in the heart of London this outpost contains Maj. General Hon. Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, High Commissioner in Great Britain for His Majesty's Government in Australia. Up to last week Australia House...
...Most Russian Comrades suppose that every prominent Briton is a "Lord," just as most British Lords suppose that every Soviet Russian is a "Comrade." Strictly speaking no man is a Lord unless he is a member of the Peerage, or a Comrade unless he belongs to the Communist Party. "Lord" Churchill is an unimportant Viscount. Professor Ramzin meant of course "Mr." Winston Churchill, not long since the vigorous Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer...
Thus Germany leads, proportionately, in unemployment (one German in 19 jobless) with Great Britain second (one Briton in 21 jobless), and the U. S. third (one U. S. citizen in 30 jobless). But the International Labor Office figure for U. S. unemployment is 500,000 greater than the 3,500,000 now conceded by the Hoover Administration. Adds the I. L. O. report...
...every Briton knows that Lord Birkenhead's grandfather was first a miner, next a fisticuffer who fought his way to the heavyweight championship of Yorkshire, finally a zealous house agent in grimy Birkenhead?just across the River Mersey from bustling Liverpool...
Finally this potent, prophetic Briton indulged in a bit of pure irony which made some of the Bond Clubbers squirm: "You have always protected your home market. The infant industries of America have remained in swaddling clothes ever since I can remember. You have put up a tariff wall which has enabled them to grow up to manhood and protects them today. In fact, the longer you go on, the higher it gets. Of course, you never have varied, and I don't think ever will vary it or should vary...