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Mellow & Gracious. Queen Mary came to embody that enduring sense of the past that lives in the present, which is the Englishman's special love. As the court went into a 30-day mourning period (which will end before the coronation), one who strongly shares this sense of past & present spoke her requiem...
...think the phrase 'gutter press' could have been invented for the modern English tabloid The British . . . took the American tabloid and they lowered their sights. They de-improved it. It is something that has to be seen to be believed ... The curious thing is that, when an Englishman imitates an American tabloid, he is five times worse than anything an American would tolerate...
...maladministration and slaving. (To this day, the Egyptian gutter name for Sudanese is "Abid," which means the slaves.) In 1882, rotting Egypt burst apart; the British moved into Egypt proper, and a religious fakir, calling himself El Mahdi (The Messiah), took the Sudan. Famed General "Chinese" Gordon, an Englishman employed by the Egyptians, tried a holding operation in Khartoum, but died on the steps of his headquarters, a human pincushion for dervish spears...
Three commissions, mutually agreeable to Egypt and Britain, will police the operation. The most important one is a commission which during the transition may veto acts of British Governor General Sir Robert Howe, uncrowned monarch of the Sudan. Two Sudanese, an Egyptian, an Englishman and a Pakistani will form the commission; thus it will have a Moslem majority-a concession by the British, who had long argued that the 2,000,000 half-clad, ignorant natives of the South Sudan had to be protected against the Arab majority in the north...
...Stewart was blazing a glittering, champagne-splashed trail. In Paris, he enchanted the café set with a series of brilliant parties at a little bistro in the Rue Pierre Charron. But when detectives, spurred on by the travel agency, in Birmingham, arrived to check up on "the gay Englishman." he had disappeared. The travel agency did not say why they wanted Morton-Stewart, only that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert Hall. He stayed only long enough (a week...