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Chairman: "Are you a Scot?" Applicant: "Yes." Chairman: "Have you ever read John Knox's Book of Discipline?" Applicant...
...self-ruled Haiti and the Dominican Republic. But with a war on, it was better policy to do something to make things better. So last week up-&-doing little Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald uprose in the House of Commons to announce what the Government planned to do. Cagey Scot that he is, Mr. MacDonald did not go so far as to publish the Commission's report, said only that the Government accepted it "in principle...
What he did submit was a 20-year new deal for the West Indies. If the British Exchequer were as big as little Scot MacDonald's heart he would put every blackamoor in the islands on Easy Street. But all he could expect to get from a war-pressed Parliament was $4,000,000 a year, to be spent for West Indian education, slum clearance, land settlement, labor departments. On all British colonies, Mr. MacDonald proposed to spend $20,000,000 a year for ten years. In addition to their specific allotment, the West Indies may share in this...
...that the market breathed easier in late August when Britain forced its nationals (holders of better than half of the Allied hoard) to register their U. S. securities, sell them only with Government permission. Last week it breathed still more freely when Britain announced that Scot Securities Tycoon T. J. Carlyle Gilford was in Manhattan to handle the orderly liquidation of British holdings...
...nervous Nellie to be panicked into witless sales is tweedy, fiftyish Scot Gifford, Edinburgh solicitor, chairman of eight British investment trusts, director of 22 British companies. Nor will he be a sucker for casual Wall Street advice. Twenty-five percent of the investment portfolios of many British investment trusts is in U. S. securities, and Scot Gifford has long known his way around the Street as well as around the City...