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...Dumb Friends League an nounced the readiness in France of a "large convalescence hospital where war-shattered horses and mules may be taken from the front line." Against the time when air raids may begin, a National Air Raid Precautions Animals Committee was organized. A gentle, chunky Scot named Colonel Robert John Stordy was chosen as chief administrator. He went to Ethiopia during the Italian campaign to treat gassed ani mals, spent much of his time treating gassed Ethiopians. Last week N.A.R.P.A.C. as urging Britons to observe a list...
...Governor General of Canada in 1935, Canadians knew him only as the prolific author of nearly 50 books. In England his fame rested chiefly on his immensely popular adventure fiction. "Mr. Buchan," a London newspaperman asked him, "how would you describe yourself?" "I am a typical Scot of the border breed," wryly replied John Buchan...
Actually, this border Scot had already packed five noteworthy careers into his amazingly versatile life, was fully equipped with energy and brains to start another at 60. A poor boy (his father was a Presbyterian parson), he had put himself through Glasgow University and Oxford with the help of scholarships and by writing, even before he left Oxford, his first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned...
...John Reith figured the twice-floundered Corsair still worth a muckle. He sent a fellow Scot, braw George Halliday, Imperial Airways sectional engineer, out from Cairo. By this time the river had gone down and there would not again be enough water for a take-off till spring of 1940. Scot Halliday figured Congo weather would have ruined the Corsair utterly by then...
...compromise suggested last week by James Henderson Stewart, M. P.: let the Scots wear their kilts until actual fighting begins, then change to the battle dress (like ski suits) which all other British troops wear. Said Scot Stewart: "If a mon does a spot o' plumbin' he p'ts on a plumber's garb, but when it's over, he disnae hae to keep on bein' a plumber...