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...with hard gaiety on Sunday to a cautious question by a titled guest as to whether the King is resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson. "Everyone knows more than we do," replied the Duchess of York, "we know nothing. Nothing!" Her Royal Highness followed this with a brittle laugh.* To Edinburgh this week traveled the Duke of York to be installed as Grand Master Mason of Scotland...
Aaron Kane was born on an island off Shelter Point, Cape Cod, a well-meaning, red-headed boy who grew up in the great days of clipper ships, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, ran away to sea, was shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and forth across the Atlantic. He survived, studied navigation, became a mate and did a little kicking and cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed...
...Life and Adventures of John Nicol is one of the first autobiographies of the sea written from the point of view of a common sailor. A brief, well-written book, beautifully Dound and illustrated in its present edition, it tells the story of a sailor who was born near Edinburgh in 1755, sailed to Canada, the West Indies, the South Seas, was pressed into service in 1794 and took part in the battles of Cape St. Vincent and Aboukir Bay. Writing vividly and unconventionally of South Sea natives, of historic battles as they appeared from the powder magazine, John Nicol...
...hope no future Foreign Secretary will ever be put in the position in which I found myself," said the First Lord last week at Edinburgh. "That state of affairs must never occur again!" To remedy it the Admiralty will build more warships, Sir Samuel said, and went on to announce momentously that the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defense, appointed to probe the "bombers v. battle ships" controversy, has now unanimously recommended against the substitution of fighting aircraft for British capital ships. "When the country hears more of the question," summed up Sir Samuel, "there will...
...Edinburgh, where the British Labor Party in annual conference commended the Government's policy of non-intervention in Spain, Leader Herbert Morrison of the London County Council attacked non-intervention at home, snorted: "Sir Oswald Mosley's demonstration was consciously, deliberately and mischievously organized for the purpose of stimulating violence and racial strife in London. That was obvious to everybody long in advance and the Government had ample time and justification for preventing the thing. If the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, had been firm and clear, he would have acted in time...