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...dramatic scene in the House of Commons is when the Prime Minister says he has "a message from His Majesty the King, signed by His Majesty's own hand," then bows thrice to the Speaker of the House and hands it up to be read. This the Rt. Hon. Stanley Bald win did last week when he handed up to Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy the abdication message of Edward VIII (TIME, Dec. 21). The first message from new King George VI asked Parliament to make "permanent provision for the purpose of facilitating the uninter rupted exercise...
Thos. Cook & Son Ltd. scored with a knighthood to Great-Grandson Thomas Cook, 34, "the youngest knight dubbed since 1911"; British Broadcasting Corp. with knighthood for its musical director, Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult; and among the 53 others knighted were George VI's private secretary, Major the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, and Nigel Leslie Campbell, principal banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing...
Back to London hurried Mr. Duff Cooper, and it remained to be seen whether he could kindle the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin into an enduring flame, or whether the Prime Minister would ignite and then gradually sputter out as he did when he was briefly lit on the Ethiopian "Deal" by Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935 et ante). Sparks flew in Downing Street last week with two "emergency meetings" of His Majesty's Government within 48 hours, and by the time Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin left to weekend in the country with the King & Queen, the more combustible...
With Parliament about to reconvene, a major national issue thus faced the Prime Minister and Sir Thomas Inskip. Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Coordination of Defense, a committee of which the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin is chairman. Sir Thomas is an extremely churchy, well-meaning British statesman who has the misfortune to know almost nothing about modern mechanized warfare. He is an expert on the Prayer Book and successfully led a great House of Commons battle against bishops of the Church of England when they wished to "reform" it (TIME, Dec. 26. 1927). In 1936 the two most fateful...
Following are excerpts from a speech on "Academic Freedom" delivered by the Hon. Ogden L. Mills '05, before the Harvard Club of New York...