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This tiresome chore done, the Frenchmen got busy next morning with Britons who pull more weight in the National Government than does the Prime Minister, namely, Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and such bright younger men as Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the Government, and Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal...
After embezzling $15,000 from the melting up of orders, the Court Chamberlain apparently embezzled an additional $10,000 from the estate of His Majesty's brother Prince Carl. According to the Danish Press, socialite Swedes made last minute efforts to save the Court Chamberlain from arrest by presenting him with gifts nearly sufficient to cover his embezzlements. When wind of all this was whiffed by the Socialist Cabinet of Premier Hansson last week, efforts to rehabilitate the Court Chamberlain ceased and he was dismissed by King Gustaf, both from the Royal Court and from the Court...
...chimney sweep named G. J. Kite. You wait and wait for the chimneys of Windsor Castle to need sweeping. You cannot offer to sweep them. Finally you are asked, and up the chimney you go. Emerging sooty but elated you wash up, present yourself at the Lord Chamberlain's office and state the facts. If the Lord Chamberlain pleases he may appoint you, as he has appointed G. J. Kite, "By Royal Warrant Chimney Sweeper to His Majesty the King...
...Rates. The U. S., Britain and France may be compared to three storekeepers, two of whom are selling at cut rates. Neither President Roosevelt nor Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of His Majesty's Exchequer has ever opposed the ending of cut-rate monetary competition, ultimately. The only trouble is that Premier Flandin seeks dollar-pound-franc stabilization now. He is the storekeeper who has not cut prices. While the other two deplore the unquestionably bad effects of present world money chaos, each hopes to gain brief advantage by prolonging it just a bit more. Last week only highest powered optimists...
Britain's Lord Chamberlain, world's strictest censor, saw no harm in Within the Gates. When the play opened in Manhattan last October, half the critical choir went into ecstasies over its allegory of a bishop's illegitimate daughter (played by Lillian Gish) who becomes a prostitute and dies in a raffish poet's arms unshriven by the Church. Since the bishop's creed was left scrupulously unspecified by Playwright O'Casey, no faction of the New York clergy felt impelled to lead an assault on the drama's heresies. But as soon...