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Died. William Horace de Vere ("Old King Cole") Cole, 53, Great Britain's No. 1 practical joker, brother-in-law of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain; in Honfleur, France. Most famous of his 95 pranks were the results of skillful impersonation: 1) when a student at Cambridge, he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar, had dignitaries escort him through the University, give him a champagne dinner; 2) in 1908, as a well-known Indian potentate, he asked to see the Dreadnaught, newest of battleships, then surrounded in official secrecy. The naval officials put on full regalia...
...Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, is the No. I member of the ruling British Conservative Party. No. 2 member is the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and younger half-brother of Sir Austen, who today figures as perhaps the Empire's leading "elder statesman...
...Spring Valley's Hon. John Doyle, apologies...
...Ethiopia so far as France is concerned (TIME, Jan 14), was glad to have The Deal approved last week by the British Foreign Secretary-disavowal of whom by His Majesty's Government would be an international scandal of the first magnitude- but he realized that the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin is a character who is accustomed to act from feeling and intuition with the casualness of a friendly sheepdog...
...Labor Leader Major Clement Attlee now leads a House of Commons group of only 154 while 385 Conservatives sit with the industrial squire who was full-paged by The Illustrated London News with this resounding caption: THE TRUSTED HEAD OF A SOUND GOVERNMENT: THE RT. HON. STANLEY BALDWIN, THE PRIME MINISTER...