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...Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, in the U.S. on his way to London for a preliminary Empire conference, was astounded and enraged. All the dominions knew that Russia had asked for three votes, but not that the U.S. had consented or decided to demand three for itself. British officialdom seemed to be in a similar quandary...
Died. John Syme, 73, indefatigable one-man crusade against British officialdom; in London. As a police inspector in 1909, he refused to book two men arrested for "unlawfully knocking and ringing" at their own door. Fired, he first besought, then threatened badgered Home Secretary Winston Churchill, was finally jailed for threatening the King & Queen. After 43 jail terms, he became a minor left-wing hero, won a $360 annual pension in reparation from Commons in 1931, continued to orate and smash windows until the noise of war drowned...
...steady display of fire and courage. He did not hesitate to call his superiors in the War Department "intermeddling pimps and spies." His emergence as a popular hero was the result less of tactical victories over the British, Spanish and Indians than of his highhanded triumphs over entrenched officialdom and political chicanery...
...crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year. First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week The Shape had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the London Daily Mirror, immediately cabled the U.S. for permission to use it in stimulating the morale of Britain's Army & Navy...
...first question, Gib Sandefer drawled that he was just a "monkey-tailed Baptist that had gone down for a little fellowship" with India's wily saint. To the political question, he answered Yes-he wanted some day to be chief of the Maryneal, Tex., fire department. British officialdom decided that he was loco but harmless...