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...their loathing of Fascism and the momentum of their years of Leaguophilia that they passed resolutions in effect endorsing the policy of His Majesty's Government. All this made the Conservative Party convention at Bournemouth last week cheerful to the point of overconfidence. Fresh from an audience at Buckingham Palace with King George, the Prime Minister preened himself in a speech referring almost with reverence to "all the responsibility that falls upon me as principal adviser to His Majesty...
...Honest Broker" Pierre Laval. In French eyes the British Royal Family became partisans last week when King George conferred explicitly on the Italo-Ethiopian war with his Ministers at Buckingham Palace (see p. 23) and Edward of Wales emulated his grandsire Edward VII by having Premier Pierre Laval to luncheon on the crisis at Britain's Paris Embassy. Necessarily President Albert Lebrun then had H. R. H. to luncheon and the persuasive charm of Britain's "Empire Salesman" was fresh in the mind of the President of France when he summoned the French Cabinet to hear Premier Laval...
...little Italy wants in Africa, their Little King sat down in his Quirinal Palace and wrote to King George, asking him to explain things in London? or so the British Reuters Agency reported. George V, having finished up his Scottish grouse shooting, announced that he would return to Buckingham Palace this week several days ahead of schedule. All his life a practical Navy man, His Majesty was far more alive than politicians like Squire Baldwin to the queer fact that big guns have a way of going off by themselves, and that His Majesty's Government had in fact placed...
...dreamers die! He was a reader this summer; reader to an old friend. He gave her poetry; saw the garden flowers for her; was her eyes through many a pleasant journey. She in turn told him tales which only the ripeness of age can tell: Of the court at Buckingham; of her romance; of the war; of her blindness; of the peace at Versailles...
...Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dr. Azaj Wargneh Martin, observed that J. P. Morgan is now in the British Isles and that it would be most gratifying if they could get together on a $10,000,000 loan. Next day an enormous limousine carried Ethiopia's envoy to Buckingham Palace and, in behalf of his sovereign Emperor Power of Trinity, the Conquering Lion of Judah, the King of Kings and the Elect of God, coffee-colored Minister Martin proceeded to decorate King George and Queen Mary...