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...Soviet papers. But last week the Government ordered big black headlines, first-page position. So breathlessly fast did events move, so blatantly sincere and joyous seemed popular response to the shootings, that all question of whether the dead men could possibly have provoked a general famine vanished from the realm of practical politics. Point of the savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant proof of Ivan Ivanovitch's present pressing concern to fill his belly. If food were even fairly easy to obtain in Russia, popular fury could not thus be roused to national frenzy merely...
...Virginia ... on the behalf of the whole country have decided to become your executioners. You have been . . . found guilty of subterfuge and as undesirable aliens. And now, as Governor of Virginia, I hereby proclaim that you shall be sent to the realm of unreality where you belong...
...sultry evening in the House of Lords last week, peers of the realm reclined at their ease on red leather benches thinking, most of them, of "The Twelfth," immemorial August opening of Britain's grouse season. That most pedantic Laborite peer, snowy-haired Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, had the floor. The 68-year-old Conservative Leader of the House of Lords, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, co-heir to the Barony of Ogle, started from a daydream just as Lord Parmoor was saying...
Bank after Bank. Signatories to the manifesto included two directors of the Bank of England, the chairman or a director of each of the "big five" banks, and a partner of such foremost fiscal houses of the realm as Morgan, Grenfell...
Before her husband's political onslaught of last week, Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, a comfortable home body and next to Royalty the outstanding bazaar-opener of the Realm, admitted that she had again held a winning ticket in a charity lottery...