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Doubtless there stirred in the Fifth George an acute consciousness that he owes his throne to the fact that the First George was a sturdy Protestant. He, the Elector of Hanover, achieved his legal right of succession to the British Throne under the Act of Settlement (1701), in which the British Parliament had taken care to exclude all Roman Catholic claimants. To-day is barely two centuries later than that time-when a religious issue was paramount in settling the First George upon his throne (1714). Has England changed so greatly that the Fifth George can dare to remain aloof...
...complicated system whereby candi dates are elected on a fixed quota of votes any surplus going to the second choice in- dicated by the elector, who has as many choices as there are candidates in his constituency...
...then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth of all the votes cast and so forfeited his elector deposit...
...Houghton incident was rendered the more remarkable by the fact that during his tenure of the Ambassadorship to Germany Mr. Houghton achieved a notable reputation for discretion and even for a certain taciturnity. He knows the political ropes well, having been twice a Congressman and twice a presidential elector. As a Harvard man with an added background of post graduate work at Paris, Berlin and Gottingen, he is no blundering shirtsleeved unsophisticate. Therefore considerable interest was aroused by a rumor that his speech to the press was made at the direct instigation of the President...
...Every elector shall vote for three candidates for Marshals, indicating his preference for First Marshal. Of three elected, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes for First Marshal shall be declared First Marshal; of the other two, the one whose total vote is higher shall be Second Marshal, and the other one Third Marshal...