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Capitulations. In Buckingham Palace a gloomy session of His Majesty's Privy Council on Ethiopia last week was cut to 15 minutes. King Edward then signed an Order in Council officially lifting Sanctions from Italy on July 15, so far as Britain is concerned...
...British Minister to Addis Ababa, heroic Sir Sidney Barton, was in London last week on a "leave" from which His Excellency is most unlikely to return to Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...
...Auctioneers submitted at Buckingham Palace the results of their sale of fittings of King George's yacht Britannia, a beloved treasure of "The Sailor King" who expressly commanded that she should be sunk and not used for any charitable purpose after his death. The late King's sailing master, Sir Philip Hunloke, tried to buy the Britannia's mainsheet, 70 fathoms long, but souvenir hunters outbid him. Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia...
...showed leaning toward Germany by chatting longest (30 min.) with Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath at first diplomatic reception in Buckingham Palace...
March 5 first British sovereign to order an automobile not made in the United Kingdom, a Canadian McLaughlin-Buick. March 18 first levee of Edward VIIIth reign, held at Buckingham Palace. April 2 spent two hours instead of the customary two days receiving the Privileged Bodies of Great Britain, the Clergy, university officials etc. April 9 revived the disused custom of personally distributing "Maundy Money" to the poor in Westminster Abbey. April 20 cabled congratulations to Adolf Hitler on the Realmleader's birthday. April jo on the death of King Fuad of Egypt received his successor King Farouk...