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...Last week Sir Sam slogged his India Bill helper, the slim, grey-mustached Marquess of Zetland, into the Secretaryship of State for India he himself had just vacated. Lord Zetland wears 1910 collars, teems with anecdotes commencing "Now when I was Governor of Bengal . . .", and has a mannerism which Englishmen describe as "perpetually washing his hands with invisible soap...
...Yorkshire joiner, who last month succeeded the late Francis Cardinal Bourne as Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of 2,200,000 British Catholics. What brought Archbishop Hinsley and his flock to Rome was the impending canonization of Sir Thomas More and John Cardinal Fisher, first Englishmen in years to attain to sainthood (TIME...
...object for Catholic veneration. Lately Anglicans have discussed turning it over to the Catholic Church, for the good reason that Sir Thomas, beatified in 1886, is soon to be a saint. In February Pope Pius XI approved his canonization, publicly welcomed the Blessed Thomas into the company of 140 Englishmen and Scotsmen who, the Church believes, were martyred for the Faith. This week at a semi-public consistory in Vatican City, Catholic bishops and archbishops are to give perfunctory approval...
...publicity." handed out to delighted U. S. correspondents free articles from such noted writers as Kipling, Wells, Galsworthy. Arnold Bennett; distributed propaganda material broadcast to U. S. libraries, educational institutions and periodicals; "was particularly careful to arrange for lectures, letters and articles by pro-Ally Americans rather than by Englishmen." German-atrocity stories spread like tares. A group of U. S. war correspondents (Harry Hansen. Irvin Cobb, John T. McCutcheon et al.) who had been caught by the German advance in Belgium and went on with the German armies sent a combined cable to the Associated Press. ("In spirit fairness...
...learn what he knew from wiping his greasy fingers, after dinner, on the ready back of a collie. It is important, observed Dr. Johnson, that the bull-dog possess tenuity; the hind-legs must be relatively thin. Everybody attributes tenacity, as a moral quality, to the breed, and some Englishmen seem quite content for John Bull, who takes his name and characteristics from it, to be regarded as the national archetype. The other breeds, most of which are represented in this volume, also connote various spiritual attributes to the mind of men. Thus we expect hauteur in the King Charles...