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...recognition of fishermen's and trawlers' services to the nation (and in part confirmation of Germany's contention that they are combatants), George VI last week reviewed a contingent of them, salt-caked in their sea boots and ragged overcoats, on the docks at Devonport Torpedo School. He bestowed no medals because, said the Admiralty: "You'd have to give medals to nearly every one of them-and what do they want with medals anyway?" The King boarded a trawler, dirtied his gloves fingering depth-charge apparatus and trawling gear. Later he helped receive a delegation...
...exhausted to greet members of the infirmary staff with Her Royal Highness, was limousined away to rest. The Duke & Duchess of Gloucester indomitably inspected royal estates which belonged to the Duke of Windsor (see p. 27) when he was Duke of Cornwall, and Her Royal Highness christened at Devonport the cruiser Gloucester. The King & Queen came vigorously through a three-day tour of Yorkshire, not making the constitutional mistake Edward VIII made when he toured Welsh slums as King, provocatively exclaimed: "Something must be done for Wales!' (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). Inspecting last week a municipal housing development...
...words, written in Explorer Scott's diary not long before he perished in March 1912 on the Ross Ice Barrier, stirred Englishmen more than any triumphant saga would have done. They are engraved on the statue of Scott made by his widow and unveiled after the War in Devonport, the Devonshire town where he was born...
Died. Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, Lord Devonport, 78, "first grocer to become a peer," head of International (chain) Stores, Britain's onetime War Food Controller; at Dunkald, Scotland...
Highly esteemed in Britain, author of numerous books, Hector Charles Bywater of the London Daily Telegraph is a very specialized critic. He reviews no plays, no novels, no art exhibitions. Hector Bywater criticizes battleships. Last week Hector Bywater went down to sunny Devonport on special invitation from the Admiralty to take a look at H. M. S. Adventure, a 7,000-ton cruiser whose innards have been a closely guarded secret ever since her launching nine years ago. There may have been ulterior reasons for the trip. Though widely known as the last of Britain's "hush hush" ships...