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JOURNEY'S END-Englishmen...
...international interest is the game with the combined Oxford-Cambridge team scheduled to be played on April 22 in Cambridge. This is the first time that the Englishmen have invaded Harvard since 1926, when they were vanquished by a 6 to 0 defeat by a Harvard team on which the present Coach Sayles was a deciding factor...
...fertile of brain, thought up the scheme which he and Viscount Rother mere lay on British breakfast tables every morning as the sole panacea which can save the Empire from fiscal ruin (TIME, Dec. 2). Ingeniously they call it "Empire Free Trade" or "E. F. T.," because Englishmen are free traders by tradition. But their E. F. T. consists of two inseparable projects: first abolish tariffs among the lands of the British Empire; second, put a high tariff on anything entering the Empire from anywhere else. Plainly the scheme should be labeled "Empire Free Trade plus Imperial Tariffs...
...only two real objections to this magnificent scheme," said Mr. Lloyd George with concentrated sarcasm. "One is that the Dominions will never grant free trade to each other or to England; and the other is that Englishmen will never undertake the erection of a tariff wall against the rest of the world. Otherwise I think the scheme is all right." Two days later in Canberra, Australia, the Dominion Prime Minister, blunt Laborite James Henry Scullin practically echoed the Welshman. "There is no hope," said he, "of getting Australia to agree to allow the goods of every other part...
Pell and Mortimer were slow starting. They often have been before, so it was not a shock when the Englishmen took the first game by six points. Pell and Mortimer won the next, and then Kemp-Welch and Cambridge put on what seemed to be their last desperate spurt. They took the third game. Pell and Mortimer squared it with the fourth. The great moment had arrived ? the moment when Pell and Mortimer, according to their usual routine, should have carried the match away. Instead, Kemp-Welch and Cambridge lifted their pace another little bit and easily...