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Henderson Elected, The League Council brushed aside Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes ("Biggest Little Statesman") who publicly aspired last week to be elected chairman of the 1932 World Disarmament Conference. Instead of aspiring Dr. Benes, the Council elected big, beefy "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, Scottish Foreign Secretary of Great Britain...
...wherever a cathedral was building. Freemasons would set up near the works a lodge wherein to serve meals and prepare their stones. To these lodges no persons were admitted but freemasons initiated in the craft's mysteries, which included not only sure means of identification but technical secrets. Scottish and Irish lodges were formed, remain distinct type parents of lodges everywhere today. Minutes and "charges" to neophytes were written down, the date of the earliest preserved being approximately fixed...
Freemasonry reached the British American colonies early, but the first "regular" Lodge was established in Boston in 1733. George Washington was initiated into a Scottish lodge at Fredericksburg, Va., in 1752. More important to the meeting of celebrants last week was the fact that when Washington was sworn in in Manhattan as first President of the U. S. the Grand Master of the New York lodge administered the oath and the local Grand Secretary was marshal of the day. From then on, so many U. S. officials were Masons that in 1826 an Anti-Masonic Party was organized...
David Kirkwood, a prominent Scottish Laborite, denounced the ex-King thus: "He's mur-r-rder-r-red men o' my class...
...seater Army bombing plane, tearing through space at more than two miles per minute, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald returned last week from his Scottish home at Lossiemouth for the reopening of Parliament after Easter recess (450 miles in about four hours). On this wild air ride, which he has made a habit during the past two years, Mr. MacDonald serenely perused Gifts of Fortune and Hints for Those About to Travel by Henry Major Tomlinson. Miss Ishbel MacDonald piloted a plane for half an hour last week, aspires (so she said) to become her father's regular pilot...