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...Home Guard headquarters he was turned over to the Army, while protocol-conscious Guardists protested the indignity of a second lieutenant's arresting a man of Hess's rank. Hess was taken first to the barracks outside Glasgow, then to a military hospital in the city. While he was on the way the Duke arrived talked for some time with Hess and British Intelligence officers...
Last week the President, in absentia: >Submitted to Congress for its information an agreement, a protocol and an exchange of notes signed in London by plenipotentiaries of the U. S. and Great Britain. The agreement formalized the lease to the U. S. of sites for naval and air bases in Newfoundland (six pieces of land, one of them 2,610 acres); Bermuda (five parcels of land, totaling 545 acres); Jamaica (six areas of land and water, totaling 55 sq. mi. and 275 acres); St. Lucia (more than 1,255 acres); Antigua (1.4 sq. mi. and 430 acres); Trinidad (one area...
...protocol specified protection of Canadian defense interests in Newfoundland; the exchange of notes* provided for the time when Newfoundland, temporarily under British administration to reorganize its finances, will again become ? Dominion...
Never before had a British King gone forth to welcome a foreign diplomat, but there was precedent for his action. A few weeks ago Franklin Roosevelt went down the Potomac to greet the King's new Ambassador, Lord Halifax. Obviously the bonds of common purpose were stronger than protocol...
...long time the air was thick with wounded feelings, with horror at such disregard of punctilious protocol. But that week Adolf Hitler, who had been sounding a harsh A for many days, was silent. It was believed that he understood such language. Up to last week the simple, tactless little statement had not yet been improved...