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...Diocesan Clergy at Bradford in the North of England: The obese, cheery Bishop of Bradford who likes to eat with his servants, play golf and work crossword puzzles, castigates King Edward in words applicable either to His Majesty's keeping company with Mrs. Simpson or to the Sovereign's skimpy attendance at Church. "In his public capacity at his Coronation he stands for the English people's idea of Kingship!" booms the Bishop. "[The King] needs the grace of God. . . . We hope he is aware of his need! Some of us wish he gave more positive signs...
...Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, is said to have given his word to Mr. Baldwin that if His Majesty's Government, in forcing their "ultimatum," as it is now called, upon the King, should resign, Mr. Attlee would refuse a command from the Sovereign that he become Prime Minister. This is telephoned to the snuggery. Over cocktails the strategy of the King and Mrs. Simpson is planned...
...dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last week Samuel Fleisher's Olympics were simultaneously taken up by two good businessmen: President George Howard Johnson of Philadelphia's big Lit Brothers department store, and a onetime Morgan partner, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania...
...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu, gave up the ghost last June. Only independent sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag for some years, he had legally surrendered his sovereignty in recognition of his place as head of the Moslem Church in the Philippines. He had a pension from the Philippine Government, a $5,000 annual tribute in the form of land rent from the British North Borneo Company and he was in fact the leader of 500,000 warlike Moros who have always despised their neighbors, the Filipinos, have never been licked...
...announced the stoppage of the strike through the medium of a declaration by General Dill in command of the troops in Palestine. The terms of this declaration are probably without precedent in British history. In fact they concede to the Arabs belligerent rights accorded to each other only by sovereign states at war with each other. General Dill has actually conceded to the Arabs the terms of an armistice in which the British forces are withdrawn from patrol in the affected areas for a given period, allowing the Arab bands to demobilize, conceal their arms and hide their identity...