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...Tape & Resistance. Behind the plowed-in buckwheat lay a story of red tape and planned agriculture. For two years, the Rt. Hon. Tom Williams, a Yorkshireman and Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries in the Labor Cabinet, has been struggling to enforce the plans for Britain's fields. For two years, British farmers have resisted him. Last summer Farmer Dennis had a poor wheat crop which he plowed under. The local County Agricultural Committee then ordered him to sow the same 20-acre field to a catch crop of mustard, which would also be plowed under while green to enrich...
Died. Alice Frederica Edmondstone Keppel, eightyish, last of the late Edward VII's girl friends after long illness; in Florence, Italy. Mrs. Keppel settled easily into the pleasure-loving royal household; no objections were heard from either the Hon. George Keppel (third son of the Earl of Albemarle) or Queen Alexandra, who at the end graciously asked Alice to sit by Edward's deathbed...
Remarried. Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Inverchapel, first Baron of Loch Eck, 65, Britain's tweedy Ambassador to the U.S.; and Chilean beauty Maria Teresa Diaz Salas, fortyish, whom he divorced two years ago; in Edinburgh (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Died. The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Cook, 86, who went to work as a pit boy in an English coal mine at the age of nine, later moved to Australia where he was one of the early members of the New South Wales Labor Party, then turned to the Right and rose from the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of Australia (1913-14); of a heart ailment; in Sydney...
Last week an answer came from a high quarter: England's second-ranking prelate, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. Wrote the 72-year-old Archbishop in his new book, The Claims of the Church of England: There is at present a "tendency towards totalitarianism in the State. The State increasingly exercises control over every department of the life of the community. It is not likely that the Church will escape from this movement. Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible...