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Last week brought the "complete surprise" that Squire Baldwin chose to be his deputy a man who must appeal strongly to the pious judgment of the Prime Minister's good wife Lucy. Neither she nor Mr. Baldwin ever pays the slightest attention to newspapers, a circumstance which makes the Prime Minister's acts frequently bewildering to newspaper readers and even more so to their editors. Stanley Baldwin decided to place the Committee of Imperial Defense in the hands of Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip...
...voice of Sir Thomas is often raised against "the Godless and shameless Bolsheviks of Russia!" It was his ambition as a youth to become a missionary of the gospel, but instead the law claimed him until War carried this pious layman into the profession of a spy-or rather into the British Intelligence Service. Next he was attached to the legal office of the British Admiralty. Of late years he has served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence...
...preacher William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart who won Alberta's last election and its Premiership by promising $25 per month in Social Credit to every bona fide citizen of the province. Premier Aberhart, whose detractors now derisively call him "Abie," spent the week getting off to Major Douglas pious cablegrams urging him to reconsider...
...what faith the Untouchables should turn for "equality of status and treatment," Dr. Ambedkar did not hasten to explain. Since he was reported dallying with Mohammedanism, Christian leaders in India exhibited pious skittishness. Declared the National Christian Council of India: ''The harvest is ripe for the gathering in many quarters and we urge that volunteer bands be sent forth to gather...
...duty he had at Hyde Park: to make a Sunday night radio address in honor of Brotherhood Day, sponsored by Jews and Christians. In view of the various reasons for his unpopularity with many of the pious, the speech was of political rather than religious importance. Although his Episcopal training kept him from invoking his Maker, he mentioned Him twice, saying: "The vision of the early days [of the U. S.] still requires the same qualities of faith in God and man for its fulfillment. No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival . . . that would sweep...