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...plotting to remain in power by a military coup d'état. That he was so plotting the President hotly denied. Nothing short of a coup d'état could keep Victor de Valera from becoming President by legal vote of the Dail, agreed Irishmen last week. Englishmen have been saying that "de Valera's hands will be tied." Even as President, he would have a majority in the Dail only if supported by both his own Fianna Fail Party and the Irish Labor Party. Up to last week nearly all Englishmen and numerous Irishmen had supposed...
...Englishmen picked by the British trustees to attend Harvard are John Francis Butler of Oxford who will study philosophy and religion, and Frederick Fuller of the University of Liverpool who will study French literature. Miss Elsie P. Corbery of Oxford and Donald R. Dudley of Cambridge will attend Yale...
...look at Author Ford Madox Ford you might think he was one of those adenoidal Englishmen on whose mentality the sun never rises. After reading him you would have to admit yourself mistaken. Though not always graceful he is an agile writer, an anecdotalist of parts and humor, of quite un-British charm. Return to Yesterday is not just another old codger's autobiography. To read it is like being monologued by an expert. Author Ford, though gossipy, is also old-fashioned in his reticences, apologizes for not being even more so. "I have tried to keep myself...
...make no denial," beamed the British Revenue man. "I consider that the situation has been saved. Newfoundland will not default its obligations in January. Britain's oldest colony will not be the first to refuse payments on its debts! That is all, gentlemen." Like Sir Percy, most Englishmen still think of Newfoundland as the ''senior colony" of the Crown, though it was created a Dominion only in 1917 in recognition of Newfoundlanders' War service. Historians are not sure, but most of them think that Newfoundland was the land abounding in a multitude of fish which Seafarer...
...Harvard-Oxford forensic contest, as broadcast from England and America in December, was a decisive victory for Harvard, according to letters received by the National Broadcasting Company commenting on the debate. More than 300 letters, coming from 24 states and three Canadian Provinces. Many of the letters come from Englishmen traveling through this country, among them a member of Parliament. The score by letters was 132 for Harvard and 90 for the British speakers...