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Winston Churchill, arch-exponent of Anglo-French military cooperation, complained that the British attitude of "one ally should do the paying while the other must do the dying" was an insult to France. Up rose William Shepherd Morrison, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who speaks in the House of Commons for Admiral of the Fleet Lord.Chatfield, Minister for the Coordination of Defense, surprisingly agreed with Mr. Churchill and said significantly: "Once involved in war we could not proceed upon a principle of limited liability." That statement, M.P.s believed, meant that Britain would send another expeditionary force to France...
...Children's Crusade might be the subject for a fine work of imaginative realism. Our Lives Have Just Begun attempts instead a piece of reverent irony-the story of a French shepherd boy who, mistaking a joking troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...
...scared the day lights out of most of Jewett with accounts of a mythical half-beast, half-man he had encountered. Sample Robinson "Town Note": "Some more mules and wagons in Jewett Saturday afternoon and not many cars, a little money floating around among such men as Profs. Travis Shepherd and J. A. Humphrey...
Only mildly sensational were other Cabinet changes: Sir Thomas Inskip took over the relatively unimportant post of Dominions Secretary, which had been filled by Malcolm MacDonald along with his Colonial Secretaryship; unpopular William Shepherd Morrison, a misfit as Minister of Agriculture, was transferred to the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. A gentleman farmer, Major Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith was given...
...shows, which drag along "until exhausted," feature 16 girls, some of them "too late for Social Security," others introduced as "from the House of the Good Shepherd," Baltimore's home for delinquent females. For ensemble acts, the chorines, seated around the room, suddenly pull off their evening gowns and, with very little on, flounce into their routines. After each specialty act, the audience is warned that the next one will be worse. Two husky bruisers, "Machine Gun Butch" Gardina and "Little" Jack Horner, 6 ft. 6, preserve order...