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...since more than a year ago when crowds of milling Englishmen chanted "We want King Edward!" had stodgy Downing Street seen such a demonstration. Thousands of London's Irishmen and Irishwomen packed the pavement before the black door of No. 10. The rousing strains of southern Ireland's republican anthem, A Soldier's Song, swelled from the lusty throats. Staid civil servants in black jackets and striped trousers poked their heads out Whitehall's windows. Suddenly the singing ceased. "Up Dev!'' roared the crowds. "A republic-no less!" A tall, gaunt, smiling man appeared...
...meeting got off on the right foot when de Valera found on the British side of the long Cabinet table his trusted friend, "straight shooting'' Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late James Ramsay MacDonald, and Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Regarded by Englishmen as a cold-as-a-fish lawyer, Sir John is known to Irishmen as the husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find that de Valera no longer went off in rambling...
London's tall, unarmed, polite police are adequate to deal with Englishmen, Scotsmen or Welshmen. But last week a heavy guard of Bobbies at Euston Station were swept aside like chaff by a crowd of grinning Irishmen who were more than willing to punch the nose of any officer who resisted. With shouts of "WE WANT DEV!", the Irish captured a platform up to which rolled a train bearing President Eamon de Valera. They clawed and climbed their way to the roof of the train -something which in England "isn't done" -cheered and waved Irish flags while...
...Harold Clayton Urey had christened doubleweight. hydrogen "deuterium." Dr. Urey had discovered doubleweight hydrogen and it seemed that he had a right to name it. The nucleus was called the "deuton." Dr. Rutherford did not like these names, especially "deuton," which he declared was likely to be confused by Englishmen with "neutron," particularly if the speaker had a cold. Lord Rutherford was for calling the atom "diplogen" and its nucleus the "diplon," and a number of British scientists seemed willing to follow his lead, despite a polite but barbed letter which Dr. Urey and his associates rushed off to England...
Producer Miller's first importation this year is Author Rattigan's first successful play of any year. It is buoyant, imponderably slight. Its setting is the living room of M. Maingot's villa in the south of France, whither a group of young Englishmen have come to learn French in preparation for the ''diplomatic'' and to have their lives complicated by a predatory lass, lithely represented by Penelope Dudley Ward. The play is joyously, if inexpertly, served by the younger characters of its cast (Philip Friend, Cyril Raymond, Hubert Gregg, Jacqueline Porel), Veterans...