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...grand total is $35,000,000 spent during the past seven months for "special measures" undertaken by Viscount Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper and Air Secretary Viscount Swinton solely because of "Eden Diplomacy." All three Ministers rose in the House to ask still more money for their departments. Meanwhile last week Foreign Secretary Eden replied to the recent Italian note in which Ambassador Dino Grandi argued that the British naval demonstration in the Mediterranean is not justified under any part of the League Covenant and asked His Majesty's Government how they account...
Africa thus ceased to be the insatiable killer's paradise. Said Britain's Secretary of State for Air, Viscount Swinton: ''It is the man who has made the killing of animals and the getting of trophies his life's profiteering work . . . whom we have got to meet...
EYEWITNESS - Major-General Sir Ernest D. Swinton - Doubleday, Doran ($3). The story of the tanks in the World...
...beginnings and early development of the Harvard interest in aquatic sports. Very few students to-day know anything of the changes which have brought rowing into its present high repute. We look with pleasure for the continuation of the narrative. The last prose article is "How John Swinton came to go into Business." We do not think that Swinton as portrayed here was very logical in his search for a profession. Instead of looking for the higher types among the lawyers, the doctors and the ministers, he seems to have chosen very inferior men as the proper representatives of their...
...References. Swinton's Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan's Report. The Peninsular Campaign of 1862, Mil. Hist. Society of Mass. Official Reports-Army of Northern Virginia...