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When he was himself a small, Ethiopian orphan, the future diplomat attached himself to a marauding band of British troops who in 1868 burst into his country under General Napier on what Queen Victoria called a "punitive expedition." The little waif had an appealing way with him. A Scottish officer took him along to India, gave him the name "Martin," had him educated as a physician in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Dr. Martin retired on a pension after 29 years of duty in the Indian Medical Corps. About this time Ethiopia's great Emperor Menelik heard of Dr. Martin, summoned...
...muddling through." Scare heads in London papers suggested that, for all anybody knew, tons of Fascist bombs might at any minute blow up Malta. As George V read the papers he grew more & more excited. He, too, was not in London but 470 miles away at the royal Scottish summer retreat, Balmoral. Finally His Majesty could stand it no longer, took the most unusual step of causing it to be publicly made known that he had cabled Mr. Baldwin an expression of the Sovereign's readiness at a moment's notice to rush back to his Capital...
When the great Duke of Wellington, in the course of shooting grouse in Scotland, shot the fundament of a female Scottish peasant full of birdshot, His Grace testily made no apology, and a member of his entourage observed: "The good woman should have been honored by any contact with the Victor of Waterloo...
What slim, ascetic Dr. Sigmund Freud is to Psychoanalysis, bald, beefy Major Clifford Hugh Douglas is to Social Credit. The Major, a Scottish engineer, a graduate of Cambridge and a cousin of Lord Weir, once worked for Westinghouse in India, now has his swank abode in London and contrives to rent his ideas for fat fees. In 1934 the Alberta Government which was thrown out last week paid him $30,000 to go to Calgary and expound views which they proceeded to ignore but which fired High School Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them...
...because of a superabundance of contradictory evidence. Centre of controversy all her life, subject of inquiries and investigations, her reputation was darkened and defended by contemporary partisans who did not hesitate to employ torture and forgery to establish her guilt or innocence. To the confusions bred by religious antagonisms, Scottish and English national rivalries added more contradictions, until the personality of Mary Stuart was obscured, even in her own day, in a haze of moral, religious and political disputes...