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...Cadbury, whose father bought shares in 1901 (at David Lloyd George's behest) to keep them out of the clutches of Boer War imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge don who once edited the Economist; pedantic, competent Editor (since 1936) Gerald Barry, a Saturday Review alumnus, and tack-sharp Robin J. Cruikshank, 47, a big, curly-haired six-footer who is regarded the top newspaperman...
...officer, Captain Edwin T. Layton, testified: "Admiral Kimmel looked at me, as sometimes he would, with somewhat of a stern countenance and yet partially with a twinkle in his eye and said, 'Do you mean to say that they could be rounding Diamond Head and you wouldn't know?' or words to that effect...
Canada's reinforcements debate was out in the open at last, First Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, his dander up, defended his determination to stick to a policy of voluntary overseas military service. Then James Layton Ralston, fired as Defense Minister in last fortnight's crisis over the issue, told why he favored compulsion...
...crisis in the Canadian Government has been simmering for weeks. Last week it boiled over. Out as Defense Minister went bulky, ruddy James Layton Ralston...
...Compulsion. In isolationist Quebec, "conscription" is a fighting word. In deference to Quebec, Prime Minister King had always insisted that there should be no compulsion on any Canadian to serve outside of Canada. Now he had summoned his Cabinet to hear Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, just back from overseas. The Canadian casualty toll, 61,295 in September, was up more than 10,000 since Aug. 1. Since then, the Canadian infantry in France had suffered fur ther heavy losses. The question before the Cabinet: were there enough reinforcements to support the Canadian Army abroad adequately, or had the time...