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This kind of talk by young statesmen of a type called by the late Rudyard Kipling "flanneled fools" does not go down in Warwick, the constituency of Mr. Eden. He addressed his constituents last week for the first time as Foreign Secretary. "The leadership of Great Britain is no insignificant element," he said, drawing a chorus of "hear, hear!" "I am proud to think it was the United Kingdom Government which gave that lead!" But he was not specific about which of the various leads His Majesty's Government have taken on the Ethiopian Question...
...great honesty Rudyard Kipling set to stirring lines what is today the situation most vexing to Benito Mussolini...
Road to Mandalay. Both grandfathers of Rudyard Kipling were uncompromising Wesleyan ministers, monoliths of character and force. In the grandson their virile strains appeared to converge and explode with a vehemence scarcely to be expected in the son of useful, but far from remarkable, Mr. John Lockwood Kipling, Professor of Architectural Sculp ture and for many years a museum curator in Bombay...
That little Rudyard, the precocious child who soon read himself into near blindness, should be the genius who made Englishmen really see for the first time their great, fabulous and glowing Empire of India was a supreme quirk of Fate...
Second Recessional? Cousins are Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Poet Rudyard Kipling, at whose home the statesman first met his invaluable, bouncing Wife Lucy. Last week sturdy Squire Baldwin, whose hobby is breeding prize pigs, was the only prominent member of His Majesty's Government who did not take time out to attend the Spithead sea pageant. Cousin Kipling, on the other hand, had been so fired by the prospect of this Silver Jubilee Naval Review that he had been grinding away for weeks in an effort to repeat the success of his Recessional, written for Queen Victoria...