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...Droned through a little perfunctory debate, during which several Peers of the Realm were observed to be reading the just-published memoirs of Viscount D'Ab ernon, who was Britain's first post-War ambassador (1920-26) to Germany. At the Spa Conference in 1920, Viscount D'Abernon wrote in his diary, under date of July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Amanullah been assassinated, neither his phlegmatic 280-pound brother, or another brother who is insane, or the boy Crown Prince Rahmatullah (TIME, Sept. 17) could have saved the dynasty of Durani. But Amanullah was not dead. Presently he came speeding by motor car into Kandahar, "Second City of the Realm," after encountering no opposition from the bandits who, stupid, seemed to think that when a king has abdicated he is going to stay abdicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Coup d' Escape | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...religion, the professor gives us to understand, must secure its facts from science. Just why facts are necessary to religious concepts or just what facts we know outside the realm of science. Dr. Barnes has not seen fit to reveal. Most scientists put their primary interest in the observed conditions of life and are content to base their religion on then inmost individual thoughts. Now in his speech before a society of Free Thinkers Professor Barnes lays down the one and only "scientific" view of the cosmos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COSMOS REVEALED | 1/22/1929 | See Source »

...reported from Moscow, where the Soviet radio station is directly in touch with Kabul, that King Amanullah had delegated his Royal powers to a "Council of Fifty," composed of "leading Mullahs and Khans of the Realm." Since these persons would unquestionably revoke all the newfangled decrees issued by King Amanullah after returning from his famed tour of Europe (TIME, Jan. 23- June 4. '28), joyous Afghans prepared for a new order, "Back to Barbarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Back to Barbarism! | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...there are to be found some flowers, but there is no telling one from the other and so criticism mows them down weed and flower alike. Certainly this state of affairs is more a function of the analyst than of the subject matter; for we have here a legitimate realm for disciplined inquiry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

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