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...Hon. Herbert M. Marler, head of Canada's embassy to the orient, has been sent to China on a great diplomatic and commercial mission. It is entirely possible that, arising from his visit, Canada will sell 100,000,000 bushels of wheat...
Equally able is Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, Knight, Dean of the Chapels Royal, Chaplain of the London Rifle Brigade, D.D., LL. D. Last week, aged 72, this spry alumnus of Marlborough College played for the old school in a valiant Old Boys' soccer match staged on the laws of the Bishop's residence, Fulham Palace. Soccering well the Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. scored three of his victorious team's eight goals. Score 8 to 4. Festivities followed in the Palace. A frequent feat of the Soccering Bishop: playing tennis...
...Dominion status is given. Far more important was the appointment of a new Viceroy for India: Free man Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron Willingdon of Ratton, at present Governor General of Canada. Latest previous royal representative to be appointed was the native-born Gover nor General of Australia, Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (TIME, Dec. 15). This appointment so roiled George V that he altered the traditional "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve . . ." to "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed...
...Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams, was killed in the War. In 1924 Lord Willingdon's second son, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter of emaciated Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famed Hamlet. Dimpling, buxom Lady Willingdon was a noted beauty in her youth, and a literal Lorelei. Years ago, returning to Britain from Australia, Mrs. Freeman-Thomas, as she then was, gave a large dinner party...
...prominent Frenchmen and Englishmen accused at the Red Trial in Moscow of trying to overthrow the Soviet State (see above) only the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Privy Councillor of His Majesty George V, had admitted the charge up to last week...