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...sleep and the cat didn't know what to make of it." Said he: "It was all due to my Southern charm." From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare to his father, Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion...
From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon...
Blockade. Up for cross-examining by the House of Commons last week was 44-year-old Ronald Hibbert Cross, Minister of Economic Warfare on how this most important job was being handled. Geoffrey Mander, a Liberal colleague of Lion Lloyd George, wanted to know whether any approach had been made to the U. S. to persuade that great nation against selling to other countries (notably Russia) materials which might be passed on to Germany...
Because the Honorable Mrs. Geoffrey Bowlby, Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth, developed mumps, the staff of Buckingham Palace went under medical observation for two weeks...
...Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said. As to the vulnerability of Messerschmitt planes, he said: "I have heard some rumors like the ones you say, but I have other information...