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...Tate whatcha do, it's the way Hatch a do it," sang You Foo Too. "Cut out the corny Muzk," growled Hu flung Huey, "It makes my Ayres stand...
...Hogarth retired during the summers to draw. So was the Gothic House of Lords-by an incendiary bomb, the fire from which was doused by Members of Parliament. Dingy Whitehall, the administrative hub of the Empire, and Downing Street, a famous address of power, were targets. So was the Tate gallery. Madame Tussaud's waxworks were shaken, and though Admiral Beatty lost the nose which survived Jutland, Hitler and Mussolini stared on uncrumbled. The slums whose names are nevertheless music to the Empire's poverty-stricken-Limehouse (after ancient limekilns), The Minories (pronounced minneries, after Nuns Minoresses), Elephant...
Before Japan can get very far in her new friendship she must overcome: 1) Russian suspicion of Japan, and 2) Japanese suspicion of Russia. Last week, coincidentally with the press campaign, Foreign Minister Matsuoka named a new Ambassador to Moscow: Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tate-kawa. A leader in the anti-British campaign since 1937, skillful, politically ambitious General Tatekawa remarked: "The British are a crafty lot, smooth-spoken but always with something up their sleeves. I can get along with the Russians better...
Cried Mrs. Tate: "Does the Home Secretary consider it was a suitable selection on the part of the Children's Overseas Reception Board to choose as their representative a member of this House [Captain Cunningham-Reid] whose division record is under 5% [i. e., who stays away from Commons sessions nine-tenths of the time], whose association [constituents] has passed a vote of censure on him, and who also happens to be a reserve officer...
...Tate was shouted down at this point by the House, concluded her remarks in the Sunday Dispatch: "In no conceivable circumstances should members be allowed for any personal reasons to leave this island when it is threatened with invasion-for that is not representative of the British people. It is only representative of the rat. If members apply for an exit permit, except for Government business, they should be forced to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds.* Moreover, unless they return to their country in its hour of need, they should forfeit their [British] nationality...