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With observers in nearly every capital last week stressing the menace of today's little wars* and the danger of another conflict between Great Powers, sturdy, Scottish indomitable James Ramsay MacDonald decided that the time had come for drastic efforts. Taking with him his Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) and an impressive retinue, the Prime Minister appeared at Geneva in the full panoply of the BRITISH EMPIRE. On his way through Paris he failed to persuade French Premier Edouard Daladier to come along -but soon after Mr. MacDonald's arrival in Geneva, M. Daladier changed his mind...
...Kittredge '82, Gurney professor of English Literature will again give comparative Literature 25, dealing with the English and Scottish popular ballads. H. A. Wolfson, Nathan Littauer professor of Jewish Literature and Philosophy will only give the first half of History...
Wags were quick to point out that the cinema owner ought to have been beheaded. For his crime the Act invoked last week provides Death by the axe. It was passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth especially to cause the beheading of such troublesome Scottish flag-flyers as Mary Queen of Scots. No fool, the young Duke of Norfolk knew better last week than to order, "Off with his head...
Throwing back his broad Scottish shoulders and slightly twitching the muscles of his neck, as he always does before saying something important, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald declared to a roomful of correspondents: "The problem, as I see it, is not merely the recovery of this nation but the restarting of the commerce of the world. We must have a conference to boldly tackle this much bigger problem in all its aspects...
...purely Scottish blood, Bruce Lockhart eschewed English universities, finished his education in France and Germany, then went to Malaya as a rubber planter. There he achieved sufficient fame as a footballer, too much notoriety when he took native royalty for a mistress. Timely malaria got him out of that scrape, sent him home to his outraged family. For lack of something better to do he took the examinations for the Foreign Office and passed at the head of the list, much to his surprise. In 1912 he was sent to Moscow as British vice-consul. He liked...