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Every newspaperman or writer, be he Briton or American, should have a proper respect for exactness and a feeling for the nicely chosen word. Mr. Taylor's criticism, however, is petty haggling to no discernible purpose. TIME'S writers, he says, would get the blue envelope from the average American newspaper editor. Just wouldn't they though! That's one of the reasons TIME is so readable...
Archibald Philip Primrose is now in his 78th year. He was Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. He is the last surviving Earl to have held the Premiership before Britain's gradual democratization rendered that office practically reserved to commoners. He was the first Briton ever to own a horse which won the Derby while its owner was Prime Minister, an altitude of bliss which only British sovereigns who have tried to "win the Derby" and failed can fully appreciate. In 1878 the Times and many another British newspaper listed in slightly over two columns "the more notable wedding presents...
...serious debtor and a smiling creditor-Count Giusseppi Volpi, Finance Minister of Italy and the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Chancellor of the British Exchequer. A sleek, bearded Latin and an expansive, rubicund Briton. The most powerful self-made Italian industrialist, and the most genial onetime First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Such were the two completely antithetical statesmen who sat down to dicker over a settlement of the Anglo-Italian debt, in London, last week. What they said to each other naturally remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were...
...established him convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable only in provincials from Idaho and Wisconsin...
This sect is headed in the U.S. by Archbishop W. H. Francis, with headquarters in Chicago. It traces its episcopal lineage to the Ancient Church of the Netherlands, founded in the Seventh Century by a Briton, Saint Willibrord. Its modern strength dates from 1870, when there acceded to it many Roman Catholic bishops who could not agree to the doctrine of papal infallibility promulgated and accepted by the Vatican Council just interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. Old Catholics insist on the peerage of the bishops, and further object to the stringently monarchial system of the Roman Catholic Church...