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Bankhead of Alabama and niece of Alabama's new Senator John Hollis Bankhead, returned to the U. S. after eight consecutive years of playing on the London stage. Said she: "Oh, Englishmen are divine! Just divine! But I have seen and been with them so long the perspective gets dim. Now that I am away, I see Englishmen as even more divine than when I left them...
...have no fear of transferring power to India. I do not think for a moment that Indian cabinet ministers would be inferior to Englishmen. But I doubt very much the wisdom of India adopting the British constitutional system with its Cabinet form of government and House of Commons ... a system which even in this country depends for its success on the conditions of the 19th Century and which now, even for England, is arousing skepticism and misgiving as to its adequacy...
They will have to pay dear for whiskey, wines, silks, jewelry and beer. The tariff on imported cigarets was upped some 600%, should prove prohibitive to all except Americans who must have Camels, Luckies etc.; Englishmen who must have Players, Abdullas. With great astuteness the Chinese Government upped their tariff so suddenly that the "foreign devils" had no chance to lay in advance supplies of their necessities - luxuries to Chinamen...
...prominent Frenchmen and Englishmen accused at the Red Trial in Moscow of trying to overthrow the Soviet State (see above) only the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Privy Councillor of His Majesty George V, had admitted the charge up to last week...
...have always understood that Englishmen were accustomed to regard Americans with a more or less condescending attitude. If the actions of a certain element which attended the excellent lecture given by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather at the Harvard Union Tuesday evening can be called typically American, then we feel that the English attitude is entirely justified...