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...line of conduct, and felt that my proposals were unwise or ill-timed. I have ended my period with more personal friends, from Gandhi on the left to many Indian princes on the extreme right, than has any previous Secretary of State for India." A great statesman, a great Englishman, and now a popular hero, Samuel John Gurney Hoare emerged in the brilliant Geneva dawn last week as quite possibly a future Prime Minister...
With jackals and hyenas howling outside the Royal Palace at Addis Ababa last week, a jovial Englishman with the fat chaps of John Bull and a dour Maine Yankee worked furiously in secret. They were writing up something in English, something so important that no one Ethiopian scribe got a look at the whole thing. By the Emperor's command the English sheets were scrambled and handed out of order to different Ethiopian translators, all vowed to secrecy...
...Eustace Morgan, British principal-elect of McGill University, dangling his long legs and rattling off interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed...
...cling patriotically to the myth of U. S. supremacy in sport, the game of tennis has lately been a painful disappointment. Not since 1926 has the U. S. won the Davis Cup. For the past two years the ablest amateur tennist in the world has been that convivial young Englishman, Frederick John Perry, who last week made his 1935 U. S. debut by beating old Manuel Alonso in an exhibition match at South Orange. That Perry will win at Forest Hills next week tennis experts are unanimously agreed. If he does so, he will, for the first time, actually become...
...nearly perfect sample of self-made middle-class Englishman is Harold Keates Hales, M. P. Short, red-faced, hearty, with a good opinion of his own wits, an honest satisfaction with his eccentricities, he wears a stand-up "jam pot" collar and claims to be the only automobile driver in the world who has never once blown his horn. The energy piled up by this repression Mr. Hales has variously discharged by flying an airship around St. Paul's Cathedral (1908), achieving one of the first airplane crashes (1910), pushing and plodding ahead in the china and exporting businesses...