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...instructed Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests in "open arteries of commerce." In the House of Commons, a long-standing sympathizer with China, Liberal Geoffrey Mander, complained so bitterly about the smell of appeasement that Prime Minister Churchill was obliged to make his first Parliamentary statement on Far Eastern matters: In reaching this painful decision, said the Prime Minister, he had been guided by "the dominant fact that we ourselves are engaged in a life...
...Others: Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the London Times, the late John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada), Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor General of Union of South Africa...
...SALVATION OF Pisco GABAR-Geoffrey Household - Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Rogue Male, twelve short stories as pungent as good Maugham, with at least one staggering piece of condensation: " 'I blame nobody,' said Gabar. 'We are animals. Will you have a drink...
Also last week came the annual report of the Public Morality Council, signed by its chairman, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of London, 52, an athletic, old-school-tie moralist with a wife and six sons whom he calls his "seven assets." P. M. C. was highly alarmed about "importuning in the streets" from noon until dawn in the Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers...
...headmasterships. Drawing most of its material from brilliant BMOC's (big men on campus) who graduated here, the Dean's Office is the middle link in the oft-repeated student council to "baby" dean to headmaster circuit. E. Francis Bowditch '33, now headmaster of the Park School of Indianapolis, Geoffrey W. Lewis, head of Browne and Nichol's, and Francis Parkman '18, headmaster of St. Marks, are but a few of those now landed in comfortable prep school berths who started at University...