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Ever fascinating to Englishmen is the question of what they are really like. Last week the King's subjects were glad to hear from Edward of Wales another buzz on the old saw. Said H.R.H. in welcoming to St. James's Palace the Council for Relations with Other Countries: "Better traveling facilities abroad since the War and an improvement in the manners and attitude of our tourists have done much to kill the baseless legends about us. All Britons do not have prominent teeth, nor do they all wear knickerbockers...
...English statesman could scarcely have spoken more persuasively to Englishmen. As tired Captain Eden returned to London it was clear that he had settled nothing, proved nothing. "I am going to report to my colleagues," said he morosely before facing the House of Commons. Mussolini, it was understood in Whitehall, proposes that, since Ethiopia's admission to the League of Nations was conditional on her abolishing slavery, and since slavery still flourishes in Ethiopia, the thing to do is for the Great Powers to expel Ethiopia from the League and hand her over to Italy which would guarantee to free...
Australia's MacDonald. If Englishmen were not so ignorant of Australia, they might point out that James Ramsay MacDonald's desertion of the Labor Party which had made him Prime Minister and his formation of a National Government was exactly paralleled in Australia by Premier Lyons. Neither the Scot nor the Tasmanian was ever a true toiler in the Marxian sense. Both got their start as schoolteachers. And of Ramsay MacDonald it might have been said, as one of Joe Lyons' admiring biographers has frankly said of him, that "when it came to politics he stood for the Labor cause...
...proud role of telling Englishmen that Germany is out for naval parity with them in the North Sea fell last week to that astute young scion of Prussia's old nobility, monocled Joachim von Ribbentrop who, after coming unscathed through the War as a swank Torgau Hussar, was briefly reduced to selling whiskey...
...fantastic theory of most Latin Americans was and is that the U. S. was behind Bolivia; Great Britain behind Paraguay. To complicate this nonsense, Englishmen and Germans rallied to the Bolivian cause, Frenchmen and White Russians to the Paraguayan cause...