Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they occurred were not reported in British papers, by request of the Admiralty. Alien news services were encouraged to transmit via London every fact they could glean about the sudden, sensational and unannounced dispatching of the British Home Fleet, which was scheduled last week to be maneuvering off Scotland, to join the British Mediterranean Fleet. With charm and polish, Admiralty officials said that they "really did not know" the whereabouts of Britain's famed super-warboats, the Hood, the Rodney and the Nelson...
This drew a final British retort from the most potent statesman in Prime Minister Baldwin's Cabinet, lean, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, frequently mentioned as a future Prime Minister. Speaking at Floors Castle in Scotland, Mr. Chamberlain asked for an even larger British Navy. "The dangerously low level to which our defenses have fallen has caused some to treat us contemptuously," said he. "This is not a tolerable situation. . . . Italian opinion has been led to regard Britain as a monster of hypocrisy and selfishness. This is not true...
...personally recoils from a project so adventurous and, finally, that London bankers are now backing deposed Georgios II who never abdicated as King of Greece. Last week British George V once more showed where he stood by having "Gorgeous Georgios" II as his grouse-shooting guest at Balmoral in Scotland. In Athens Premier Tsaldaris took the hint and a long step forward toward a return to a Monarchy...
...well-known British classicist, Herbert Jennings Rose, since 1927 Professor of Greek at the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland, will be visiting lecturer on Latin during the first half-year. Following education at McGill and Oxford, Professor Rose was a Fellow and Lecturer of Exeter College, Oxford, 1907-11, and Associate Professor of Classics at McGill, 1911-15. After service in the army, 1915-19, he was appointed Professor of Latin at the University College of Wales, a position which he held until 1927. He is the author of numerous works on ancient classical cultures and mythology...
Conducted around London's storied Scotland Yard last week, U. S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings mourned: "It is terribly difficult to write about crime without dramatizing it in such a way as to make it a fascinating subject...