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Thwarted, humiliated as never before was George V, King & Emperor, Defender of the Faith last week. Not since his grandmother Queen Victoria wrote her anonymous letter to the London Times has a British sovereign evinced such intense displeasure.* Again last week the Times served as vox Regis, spoke for the Crown words which set every Briton of birth and breeding a-bristle with indignation. It all began at Australia House. Situated in the heart of London this outpost contains Maj. General Hon. Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, High Commissioner in Great Britain for His Majesty's Government in Australia...
...glad, Mr. President, that you referred to the fact-that the declarations made by the British sovereign and statesmen "from time to time" have been "plain. ..." I must emphasize that India now expects the translation and fulfillment of these declarations into action! ... I must express my pleasure at the presence of the Dominion Prime Ministers. . . . They are here to witness the birth of a new Dominion of India...
Short and simple, the reopening service was without sermon, consisted chiefly of a prayer by patriarchal Dean Albert Victor Baillie of Windsor for the "Sovereign and His Companions of the Garter...
...imitate her grandfather. And to show that she is taking the part of a woman of about 50 she has made herself quite hideous, with drooping eyes and sagging mouth doubtful even in a 17th Century lady. Mr. Lunt is imposing as the doughty Essex, who deeply resents his Sovereign's curtailment of his expedition to Ireland and who (according to the playwright) could have taken England from Elizabeth had he not been given to understand that she would share the realm with him, an error in judgment which costs him his head. The long, windy dialog which...
...people of Brazil, exhausted from suffering continuous humiliations at the hands of a bad government and alive to their sovereign prerogatives, not permitting themselves to fear the bombastic resistance on the part of the government, have been able to do their duty and to enforce their own civic opinions and thereby cater to foreign respect...