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...willing and an honest Englishman, one Mr. Crick, has been driven nearly distracted during the past six months, trying to serve as postmaster in the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch...
Similarly George V might ask Calvin Coolidge to pardon an Englishman. Promptly Il Re granted the request of Il Papa, last week, by advice of Il Duce, who is anxious to cement in every possible way the new Italo-Papal accord (TIME, Feb. 18). Presumably the priests freed under Civil Law will be retried under Canon Law, and, if convicted, clapped back into civil jails...
Interpreting this as a veiled intimation that what the "farm bloc" really demands is Indian independence, Lord Irwin rushed to Calcutta and delivered what was, for an Englishman, a remarkably passionate pronouncement...
...taxi to take them to the station, she is back as hostess in her husband's house-could not possibly be told so well without the sound device. For once, the voices, in spite of still imperfect reproduction, give life to the characterizations-H. B. Warner's Englishman, Ruth Chatterton's faithless wife. Best shot: Miss Chatterton on the sofa making up her mind...
Historically it is of record that the tunnel project, first officially embodied in the Anglo-French protocol of May 3, 1875, has repeatedly been blocked by British fear of a subaqueous invasion, and the Englishman's jealous love of his "splendid isolation." Today however even the most insularly minded are beginning to see that invasion from the skies is the real danger and that a channel tunnel would be vastly advantageous to British commerce in time of peace and easily dynamitable in case of war with France. So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last...