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...death of her father, Miss Hutchinson is defended by George Brent, city slicker lawyer, and since their love has none of the usual cinematic forver, it forms a more than adequate basis for their tribulations. Brent, by the aid of an ambulance, an aeroplane, and numerous howling hillbillies in potato-sack hoods, rescues his love while the audience sighs with relief...
Agitated telephone calls between London and British diplomatic agents in Saint-Jean-de-Luz were not made clearer by the fact that the captains of three of the stymied British freighters were named Jones. A consular clerk speeded matters considerably by naming them after their respective cargoes: Potato Jones, Ham & Egg Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of the lot, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil...
Back in Britain, Potato Jones became at once a hero to Laborites and Leftist sympathizers. Not since the British Government's worried acceptance of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia has the Baldwin Government been so attacked in Parliament as it was last week over its refusal to guarantee safety to British ships attempting to run the Bilbao blockade...
Added Laborite Ernest Thurtle: "Is the First Lord aware that the entire British Fleet is now toasting Potato Jones...
Soon as the Senate convened next day, Senator Robinson resumed, with every parliamentary trick in his bag, his attempts to get the Byrnes hot potato tossed out to cool in committee. But newshawks noted that gruff Joe Robinson was arguing with unaccustomed joviality. He grinned when, each time he asked for unanimous consent, North Carolina's Bailey boomed: 'T object...