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...Scouts, who are often pointed to as a potent reserve behind the national arms for peace or war, administered the Scout oath to their visitors. They presented twelve of the notables with belts, though General Bullard was the only dignitary slim-waisted enough to wear his gift. Governor Smith was persuaded to go fishing and promptly caught a fish four feet long. It was a wooden fish which the Scouts had previously attached to his line...
Even so, the Order of St. John did not depose its Grand Master upon such flimsy, hearsay tittle-tattle. At last, in 1926, Princess Charlotte divorced her husband, charging that he had caused her "mental anguish." Presumably this violated his oath to "protect women . . . and weak." A conclave of 'the Order of St. John met secretly, accepted the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich as Grand Master, then declared him "an honorary Knight of St. John...
...first parliament to sit since the recent election (TIME, June 20, 27). Disorder seemed likely as the Fianna Fail ("Republican") deputies, led by famed Eamonn De Valera, appeared, and, for the first time, threatened en masse to take their seats-while persisting in their refusal to take the oath of fealty to George V without which no deputy elected to the Dail can sit therein...
Soon President William T. Cosgrave was re-elected to that office by a vote of 68 to 22-his own party numbering but 46. His speech of acceptance was long, reluctant, full of reproaches to the Fianna Fail for not taking the oath and their seats...
...great Chang Tso-lin. Japan has supported his Manchurian régime. Great Britain is believed to have poured not a little gold into his coffers. Last week he was engaged in the gesture of proclaiming himself "Dictator." In a harsh, compelling voice he swore a 20-word oath of his own devising, to the effect that his armies will now "purge China of Communism." Unfortunately all this meant nothing whatever. Chang has always been an absolute autocrat in his own dominions. He has told correspondents almost every day for at least a year that his armies were going...