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...Commons that his Government was not so much approving a trade agreement as trading an economic treaty in the interests of immediately valuable political solidarity. "I feel sure," hinted Mr. Chamberlain, "that the House will warmly welcome this further step toward an agreement between the two Governments." Tory Oppositionist Leopold S. Amery promptly warned a meeting of the Empire Industries' Association: "I can hardly imagine that such an agreement is likely to revolutionize the American outlook on foreign affairs, so that she will be willing to do battle either for us or for the League of Nations, in Europe...
...King Leopold closed by affirming that Belgium knows she will always find in Britain "that sure support which, joined to our own unshakable determination to defend ourselves, would successfully repel all danger from our soil...
With her own hand, according to London dispatches last week, Queen Elizabeth adjusted the towels in a guest bathroom at Buckingham Palace and placed there a fresh cake of soap bearing the British royal arms. This was for the use of King Leopold III of the Belgians, whose state visit went off in glittering, uneventful style as scheduled (TIME, Nov. 22). At the last moment before the state ball there was substituted for the Royal Artillery Band, which even courtiers have called "lousy," swank Marshall's Orchestra. For the first time at Buckingham Palace the crowned heads danced...
...state banquet a toast which might have brought tears to the eyes of Queen Mary was proposed by King Leopold, responding to the toast in his honor by King George. "It is sad to recall," said Leopold III, raising his glass, "that I should, in 1935, have paid to His Majesty King George V and to your dear mother the visit which I pay to Your Majesty today. The sorrows that have befallen your family and mine, grievous as they are, have forged a further link of mutual sympathy and friendship between our royal houses and, through them, between...
...sugary as Shirley, and has more to offer than a round face and big eyes. Her voice, accompanied by the muscular hands, waving mane, and symphonic orchestra of Leopold Stowkowski, is at times actually thrilling, but always tried a little beyond its range. Her acting, when she isn't singing, compares favorably with that of her Hollywood contemporaries, although little "nous ne savons quois" here and there point to over directing...