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...column, printing excerpts from the Phillips letter. Soon hints came from London that Ambassador Phillips would resign for "personal reasons." Delightedly, Columnist Pearson printed a report that the Phillips letter had caused roars of anger up & down Downing Street. Said Pearson: the British had declared Ambassador Phillips persona non grata...
...Anglophile. To newsmen he handed what he said was a copy of a British Foreign Office cable, sent from the Department of External Affairs in India to London. It read: "The views [Phillips] has stated make it impossible for us to do other than regard him as persona non grata, and we could not again receive him. His views are not what we are entitled to expect from a professedly friendly telegram." envoy. The Viceroy has seen this The telegram was undated ; it had obviously been sent originally in cipher code...
Strike up the band, mates ... we have added to the roster, muster, or what have you ... one Guilfoyle, one Cahill, and one Clyde Fuller. 1-34 is proud to have you with us ... you possess the necessary requisite of a sense of humor without which one is person non grata ... (what the heck does that mean anyhow?) ... Combination question and suggestion ... isn't there something we could offer to do to help out over to Chelsea, such as reading aloud to some of the lads of a Sunday or something similar? After all they're Navy men and shipmates...
...drama during the 20,2, when President Lowell proclaimed the policy that. "Drama has no place at Harvard," and since that time it has not changed its strict laissez faire attitude. Long before that time it was obvious that a highly-developed drama-arts school was persona non grata in the college curriculum. Under the late, revered Professor George Baker, the Club, and the drama course that was then an adjunct to it, molded a nation-wide reputation for Harvard theatricals. But in the fall of that year, the Dramatic Society was set on its wanderings, and Professor Baker...
...edict went on to say that "the manner of Mr. Brown's broadcasts over a period of months led the authorities to regard him as persona non grata." It appeared that Cecil Brown had been arguing with the censors, as he had argued before in Rome and also in Cairo. His silencing in Singapore, however, was the first case of an Allied reporter of known integrity being denied the use of the Allied radio...