Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus editorialed, last week, the Yorkshire Post, chief organ of the woolen industry in Yorkshire, England. To point the moral of its editorial the Post recalled that potent Yorkshire Woolman John Moore is about to dismantle his English mills and transfer the machinery to Victoria, British Columbia...
...situation was one calling for a British statement to clear the air. This British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain provided, by issuing a White Book covering the treaty negotiations. In his introduction Sir Austen penned an amazing paragraph: "I could recall the sincerity with which the Ministers [of Queen Victoria] declared that our occupation [of Egypt] was only temporary and would be withdrawn at the earliest possible moment. But circumstances proved too strong for us. The moment of withdrawal never came and the events of the intervening 45 years have shown that neither of us could escape from a situation...
...additional series of the letters of Queen Victoria have just been published and simultaneously the life correspondence of Miss Gertrude Bell. The present generation fancies Miss Bell as a superwoman of the desert who died (TIME, July 26, 1926), some time after she and certain British expeditionary forces had set King Faisal of Irak on his throne. Interesting is the fact that the sheltered Queen wrote letters no less lusty than those of the feminine "king maker...
Though not even Queen Victoria could concoct a more terrifying threat than this-that she might abdicate-the new series of letters is starred with innumerable dynamic and forceful passages, many urging that the most truculently repressive measures be taken against natives in India, Africa, Egypt or Ireland, where "the more one does for the Irish the more unruly and ungrateful they seem...
...LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA, 1879-1885 (Second Series-Vol. 3)-Edited by George Earle Buckle-Longmans, Green...