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...usually Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who makes a clean breast in the House of Commons of shortcomings of his Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante), but last week this penitent part-a role which homely Squire Baldwin has made singularly popular in the United Kingdom-was taken by the Minister for the Coordination of Defense, Sir Thomas Hobart Inskip...
...Honors List created two additional barons and a viscount, each of these new peers being a Conservative Party henchman of long service. The Prime Minister's good wife, Mrs. Lucy Baldwin, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, got her admirable oar in with the elevation last week of Juliet, Lady Williams to the rank of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author...
Victor of the 1935 election was Canada's present Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who has beat about a good many New Deal bushes, doing little and talking loudly about what he will do for the splendid people of the Dominion of Canada. According to himself, Prime Minister King has been willing to do every good thing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should decide was "constitutional" under the British North America Act, which is the Constitution of the Dominion. Last week it did not break his heart that in London nearly the whole New Deal...
...general, the London decisions took from the Canadian Federal Government and wished onto the provincial governments of the Dominion many a charge and responsibility so heavy that Prime Minister King will have to find new legislative means of having the Dominion bear them anyhow. In Ottawa the Privy Council decisions were called of "utmost importance," confirming as they did the Canadian Supreme Court which gave Canada's "New Deal" a tentative scrapping last spring (TIME, June 29). As was then stressed, Canada's unconstitutional NPMA (Natural Products Marketing Act) was similar but less inclusive than the unconstitutional...
...Venice. Last week, chaperoned by the Feher family, it made its début in the U. S. in Manhattan, where it was billed with great fanfare as the "first surrealistic symphonic cinema fantasy." This turned out to be pure pressagentry, for The Rob ber Symphony lacks even the prime sur realistic quality of being unintelligible...