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...Indians alone, and enjoying the right to secede at any time from the British Commonwealth. This right, Mr. Gandhi holds, is inherent in "dominion status" and is possessed by all the British dominions-a view with which not a few Canadians and South Africans agree, but flat heresy to Englishmen...
...tour in France after a week in Perthshire, in high fettle because he had potted eleven birds the first morning and shot well above the average of his party every day. Once more, in spite of predictions that the international polo and America's Cup races would lure Englishmen away, and the depressed stockmarket keep Americans at home, fires blazed high in feudal halls rented for the season. Once more beaters in a semicircle drove toward the blinds; once more, amid smells of gunpowder and bog myrtle, the birds rose and were shot at. Most sportsmen...
Best known European name is that of John Logie Baird of London, a Scotsman whose company, Baird Television Corp., has been selling sets to Englishmen for four months, has established branches in many foreign countries (France, Germany, U. S.). Because owners have complained of the small size of televized images, Inventor Baird has, like Dr. Alexanderson of General Electric, spent the past year in enlarging his screen. Last fortnight, he gave a demonstration in the London Coliseum of his life-size images. English television programs are broadcast every...
...Editor Peter Vischer of authoritative Polo says: "None of them hit from arm chairs." Balding is a long hitter and so are Pat Roark and, proverbially, Lewis Lacey. the Canadian-born Argentine. Richard George is still competing with Aidan Roard for No. 1. Like the U. S. team, the Englishmen have decided not to announce their lineup until the night before the first game (Sept. 6), The British leader, Capt. Charles H. Tremayne, a pleasant, soldierly person from Cornwall, will not put him self on his team. Last week on the eve of sailing he was cheerful if not confident...
...Massachusetts . . . was [then] governed by principles which we here today can recognize as reasonable or just. . . . [The Puritans] spurned democracy, they persecuted conscience . . . taxed without consent." He had intended to say, and in the pre-issued version of his speech did say much about the narrow religious horizons of Englishmen in the 17th Century and their desire to persecute Catholics. After dis- cussion with the Tercentenary Commission, however, he orally deleted about one-third of what he had written and in the following sentence interpolated as follows: "Little did the founders reckon that a time would come when...