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...demand of Mr. Eden. The League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King Edward VIII's realm in which his accession to the Throne had not yet been proclaimed...
...James's Park as the Garter King of Arms. Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, unrolled a great parchment and began to read, his words drowned from time to time by the crash and thunder of the guns. Full text: "We. therefore, the Lords spiritual and temporal of this realm, being here assisted with these of His late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor. Aldermen and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim that the high and mighty Prince...
Thus His Majesty the Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo is happy in holding the thought that he was not set up by Japan as a puppet, but restored by loyal Chinese to a throne in the realm of his Manchu forefathers-a happy thought flatly contradicted by the facts...
...This information had been innocently posted to Bureau Chief Emanuel by a minor Italian stringman acting on his own initiative in ignorance of present drastic Italian war news curbs. Admitting that he received this letter. Correspondent Emanuel chirped at the President of the Special Tribunal for Defense of the Realm: "If I should be so disrespectful of your office as to dare to punch you in the face, could the Honorable President say he had 'obtained' a punch in the face...
Seated on the woolsack in his best robes and formal full-bottomed wig, Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham and Lord High Chancellor, commanded Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, Clerk of the Parliaments, to call the roll. About 100 of the realm's approximate total of 860 peers had arrived, this making an unusually large House of Lords...