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Presidents of the other roads (New York Central's Williamson, Pennsylvania's Clement), who can see no sense in risking their much larger revenues in the difficult game of getting more traffic, were peeved at the decision. But, oddly enough, they were no more peeved than the big Eastern bus lines, which get most of their business from undercutting train rates, may need to lower their own fares...
...flash in the pan, the discussion was elaborately organized to enlist the opinions of such illustrious Britons as the Archbishop of York (Canterbury declined), George Bernard Shaw, Laborites Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison, Harold Nicolson, J. B. S. Haldane, Novelist Rose Macaulay, Editor Basil Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain...
When retired General Abel Clement-Grandcourt of the French Army enlisted as a private after the outbreak of World War II, Le Journal cracked: "And Corporal Hitler has enlisted as Generalissimo." Honorably discharged a month ago because of "feeble health," irrepressible General Clement-Grandcourt, 66, turned up last week in Helsinki as a private in the Finnish Army...
This left the Prime Minister sitting pretty except that a few Laborite backbenchers interjected occasional jeers. Said Laborite Josiah Clement Wedgwood: "There has been no denial of the prejudice felt in exalted circles against the holding of that post [War Secretary] by a man who was a Jew and who was the centre of the Goebbels propaganda. What circles got hold of the Prime Minister with these stories?" When Neville Chamberlain ignored this query, extreme Left Independent Laborite Jock McGovern jumped up and demanded: "Will the Prime Minister give a denial of that...
...Died. Clement Cresson Kite, 21, Yale senior, Philadelphia socialite, star for three seasons of Yale's hockey team; by his own hand (pistol); in Radnor...