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...Angell, who is lively as a cricket despite what he calls his "obvious and offensive senility," has made no bones of the fact that he was looking for another job. Last week he announced that he had accepted one, full-time and full-sized, as the first Educational Counsellor of National Broadcasting...
...career diplomat in the British Civil Service. Born of a good Irish county family (no kin to British Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay), he transferred to the Irish Free State service when it was set up in 1924 was sent to Washington as secretary, later became counsellor at the Free State Legation. Dark-haired, affable, fond of bridge, Counsellor Macaulay was popular in the quiet set of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend in Washington, sometimes saw-Mrs. Brady at parties. In 1930 he was appointed Free State Consul General in Manhattan, where mutual social circles brought him closer to Mrs. Brady...
...defense of Russia's new constitution, alleged to provide for the suffrage of 98.2 per cent of the population over 18 years of age, came to Harvard on Saturday less than an hour after the document had been adopted by the U.S.S.R., in the person of Constantin A. Oumansky, counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, speaking before Law School Students in Langdell Hall...
According to Counsellor Oumansky, the new document provides for universal suffrage, regardless of race, sex, color, creed or previous political affiliations, so that more than 98.2 per cent of all Russians over the age of 18 will now take an active part in the affairs of their government...
Meanwhile in London, sputtering Soviet Counsellor Samuel Cahan and silk-hatted Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky were blustering at Lord Plymouth in the Foreign Office "demands": 1) that the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain be again convened and 2) that Britain and France "blockade" Portugal to prevent that country-which does not recognize the Soviet Union-from transshipping arms to the Spanish Whites. The exceedingly blue-blooded and frosty Earl of Plymouth, an Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, placed the tips of his white fingers together and murmured absolute refusal...