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...Lord Strickland. Count Delia Catena, sincerely regrets that in debates in the English and Maltese Parliaments, and, on other occasions, in defending himself against his political opponents, he clashed with the church and her authority and used words that should be withdrawn, and which he does, in fact, withdraw, for which he humbly and unreservedly asks pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALTA: Son of Holy Church | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

When he thus apologized Premier Baron Strickland hoped he had ended his feud with the Bishops (TIME, May 19, 1930 et seq.), a feud so bitter that His Majesty's Government found it necessary to dissolve Parliament and to rule Malta for the past two years by royal decree. To hold an election was something Baron Strickland dared not do unless the Bishops would withdraw their pastoral letter of May 1930 warning Catholic voters not to vote for his Constitutionalist Party. The Bishops, having received the Premier's apology, withdrew their letter. Breathing easier, Baron Strickland announced an election which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALTA: Son of Holy Church | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

SYDNEY W. STRICKLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Firstly the Royal Commission scored Lord Strickland's quarrels with the Maltese clergy as based originally on "trivial grounds." Secondly the Premier was stated to have used his powers of office as "a dominating and aggressive force, with a manner calculated to cause irritation and annoyance." Finally the Royal Commission said that Lord Strickland had committed an act almost smacking of treason to the Realm. Sent by his King-Emperor to guide and govern an excitable Latin race "extremely loyal to Great Britain" (according to the Royal Commission) he instead divided the Maltese "into very embittered cliques" and deliberately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strickland Spanked | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

George V and Premier MacDonald gave no sign last week as to what, if anything, they propose to do about Lord Strickland and Malta which, in 1930, became so incensed against Strickland that its Constitution was suspended and its Legislature dissolved by Imperial fiat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strickland Spanked | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

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