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...American tourists outside Oxford University's Christ Church, the stern, spectacled Anglican clergyman in flowing red, white and black robes looked as authentically Oxonian as the sweeping Tom Quad that he strode across so swiftly. But the Rev. Dr. Cuthbert Aikman Simpson, 67, is in fact an American. Last week he became the first U.S. citizen ever named dean of a Church of England cathedral. And as dean of Christ Church, Dr. Simpson also becomes head of its renowned annex, Oxford's Christ Church College, familiarly known as "The House...
...CUTHBERT J. TWILLEY Moline...
...Question of Conscience. Last week, as Rusape citizens hammered away at the government to exile the Matimbas from the area, Prime Minister Sir Edgar Cuthbert Freemantle Whitehead rose in Parliament to move the second reading of an extraordinary amendment to the Land Apportionment Act. The amendment proposed that any European woman who married a native would legally become a native herself. Whitehead said that everybody would be free of party discipline to vote as they wished, because this "is more a question of conscience than of government policy." One opposition member foresaw some unexpected consequences. "We say," he began, "that...
Full of a brandied kind of Scots nationalism, a bearded, kilted, 6-ft. 5½-in. classical scholar named Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun Young has for years fought an amiable but unremitting war to drive out the Sassenach. In 1942 he was jailed for not submitting to the English draft-not because it was a draft, but because it was English. After he was led to the lockup, a band of bagpipers skirled round the building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration. In 1944 he ran gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn...
...situation on the British side was strikingly different. England expected every admiral to do his duty as he saw it, even at the risk of being haled before the Board of Admiralty for making mistakes. So independent were British admirals that Nelson's second-in-command, Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, greeted his commander's famed "England expects" message with the words: "I wish Nelson would stop signalling. We know well enough what we have...