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Resumption of business by the Lords and Commons last week, after the long British Christmas-New Year recess, opened politically the new Georgian era of George VI. It was not an occasion which required His Majesty to open Parliament in state with a Speech from the Throne, the last such required speech having been read loud and clear by Edward VIII (TIME, Nov. 9). Today George VI is making rapid further progress with doctors and vocalists to overcome his defective speech (TIME, Dec. 21), and the Duke of Kent was recently pressed into service to read an overseas royal radio...
...ruthless Dictator is practical. He and Trotsky are always spitting in each other's face, but at an Oriental bazaar the rug dealers think nothing of a little saliva-and J. Stalin is to his grim fingertips an Oriental, a Georgian brigand, bomb-thrower and safe-blower who is now on terms of diplomatic friendship with fellow Dictators, Presidents, Kings. If, by invoking Trotsky as a conspirator against himself, Stalin can conveniently bump off such Old Bolsheviks in Russia as do actually get in his way from time to time, so much to the good. If there were...
...three-months rest, before returning to be Private Secretary to King George VI. Back in Buckingham Palace to the joy of all concerned was good and great Lord Wigram, for 25 years private secretary to King George V. Lord Wigram will get the Royal Household back on its Georgian legs, then turn over to Major Hardinge, remaining available as Lord-in-Waiting...
...18th centuries. The new pieces have been given as long time loans by Archibald A. Hutchinson who has been one of the chief contributors to the collection. A tea and coffee service has also been presented by Richard Sears which illustrates well the fine types of the late Georgian style...
...second time in Soviet history, J. Stalin had had himself put on the air, and all Russia could hear his thick and at times almost unintelligible Georgian accent as he tonelessly reeled off a speech so dry that even the Orator found it best to solemnly drink on the platform a total of five bottles of mineral water. The happy rural delegates, for most of whom a free trip to the Moscow All-Union Congress of the Soviets once every few years is a glorious treat, gave their mass cheers with greatest goodwill at all the right places and even...