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London cables last week left U. S. drys jubilant and wets glum. They reported Sir Broderick Cecil Hartwell, "rum-running baronet," as listed in the Official Gazette for bankruptcy...
...Joyce Broderick, counselor of the British Embassy (representing absent Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard), who received a stirring ovation from the congress, told the delegates that "the difficulties which naturally present themselves to the accomplishment of all you desire will be very quickly overcome, insofar as the British Government can accomplish that...
Orders of Chivalry: Sir William Tyrrell, permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office; Baron Desborough, international sport; Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director of the British Museum; J. A. M. Elder, Australian Commissioner to the U. S.; John J. Broderick, commercial counsellor of the British Embassy at Washington...
...occasion for the Premier's attack was an invitation to the public by Sir Broderick to contribute capital to be used in purchasing wines and spirits and exporting them to a "rendezvous" 20 miles off the coast of the U. S. When the discussion of rum-running came up in the House of Commons, the Baronet's scheme was given considerable publicity and in some quarters sharply criticized...
...Broderick, it appears, has bridled under these "impudent" attacks by the Labor Ministry. "If the citizens of the United States have such methods as will enable them to get the stuff in whenever they can with impunity," he declared, "it has nothing to do with me. What I am doing is a flea bite. Why should I be referred to as a 'disgraceful blot' for trying to meet this demand by a straight trading proposition...