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...Majesty's Government con siders this murder, which holds up Egypt as at present governed to the contempt of civilized peoples, is the natural outcome of a campaign of hostility to British rights and British subjects in Egypt and the Sudan, founded upon a heedless ingratitude for benefits conferred by Great Britain, not discouraged by your Excellency's Government and fomented by organizations in close contact with that Government...
Significance. At Babel, once a tower rose, heavenbound. But its build ers disputed, talked strange tongues, went unto the ends of the earth, con founded for blasphemy. Having accumulated humility and wisdom, and translated their tongues each into the others', the races are now come to gether again in new towers. They aspire not to Heaven, but to Knowledge...
Chief among those thus elected: Ex-Premier Baldwin (Conservative) ; J. H. Whitley. Speaker of the House of Commons (Liberal); T. P. O'Con- nor, "Father of the House" (Nationalist...
...attack on Premier MacDonald, demanded: "What became of all these lofty lectures from the Socialists about the unfairness and immorality of rent and interest when they say, at the first opportunity, that the Prime Minister did not hesitate to become an important shareholder in a great manufacturing concern con- nected with the food of the people...
...Con. The "arguments" of dirigible enthusiasts were met by dirigible non-enthusiasts and "steamship men" in this wise...