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...Bank of the Middle East, who can, does not possess a clarinet. Even if he did, the dignitary who, in the absence of the Sultan, is the recipient of ceremonial honors and who might be presumed to recognize the tune is somewhat deaf. Fortunately, I have been able to obtain, and now enclose, a Gramophone record that has on one side a rendering by a British military band of the Salutation and March to His Highness the Sultan of Muscat and Oman...
...first part of the tune, which was composed by the bandmaster of a cruiser in 1932, bears a close resemblance to a pianoforte rendering by the bank manager of the clarinet music enclosed with your lordship's dispatch. The only further testimony I can obtain of the correctness of this music is that it reminds a resident of longstanding of a tune once played by a long-defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat infantry, and known at the time to noncommissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote the vernacular) Gawd Strike the Sultan Blind...
...specially-contrived committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union last night endorsed Sen. John F. Kennedy '40, for President. Since the group could not obtain a quorum for a regular session, all members present were appointed to a special election committee to agree on a candidate...
...negotiations resulted in an agreement between the Commonwealth and New Haven whereby Massachusetts could subsidize operations for one year obtain the option to purchase the Colony afterwards at salvage rates. allotted term has expired and operations on that line have ceased...
...thereupon took up a position that was substantially the longstanding Administration position: "In the event the attack was a prelude to an attack on Formosa-because the Chinese Communists say over and over again that their objective is not the offshore islands, that they consider them only Steppingstones to obtain Formosa -there isn't any question but that the United States would then honor our treaty obligations and stand by our ally, Formosa. To do what Senator Kennedy has suggested, to suggest that we will surrender these islands or force our Chinese Nationalist allies to surrender them in advance...