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...Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London papers called him "The Prince of Pacificators"-this accolade reputedly having been bestowed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, who received his knighthood for having been one of the co-makers of the Treaty of Locarno...
...called Sir Aldo Castellani, the great Anglo-Italian physician whose work as Sanitary High Commissioner for East Africa made Italians able to fool pessimists who said their army could never live and conquer amid the heat and pullulating pestilences of Ethiopia. Sir "Aldo's title of British knighthood was superseded as His Majesty conferred on him the hereditary Italian title Count of Chisimaio...
President of the congress was Sir Walter Citrine, once a most trusted British working-class leader whom many now consider foolish for having accepted knighthood at the hands of King George. In an exciting keynote address Sir Walter indicted Fascism as "lawless, aggressive imperialism which recognizes no right but the armed force it commands!" However, Sir Walter said: "It is a delusion to imagine that the Labor movement is opposed to war in all circumstances," ended with a stirring battle cry for the League of Nations' friends to fight...
...Bathed by his father's setting sun, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1903. For his work as Britain's Foreign Secretary (1924-29) he got the Nobel Peace Prize and the almost unprecedented honor, for a commoner, of being raised at one stroke to the Knighthood of the Garter, a rank customarily reserved for peers. Then Sir Austen faded into the Conservative Party's greatest wheel horse, wearing his father's monocle, not the orchid...
...Birthday Honors was Australia's ebullient Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons, upon whose advice His Majesty acted last week in appointing Mr. Lyons to the Order of Companions of Honor. Popular was a posthumous gesture by King Edward toward the late Rudyard Kipling, who repeatedly refused a knighthood. The doctor who operated upon Poet Kipling in his last hours (TIME, Jan. 27), Surgeon Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, received a knighthood...