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Grey and graceful little U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis nominated British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare for President of the Conference, and for Vice President the First Lord of the British Admiralty, new Viscount Monsell of Evesham (Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell). These nominations were adopted by acclaim. At the time President ''Flying Sam" Hoare was on his way to wintersport in Switzerland...
...Parliament in 1605 those decorative warriors, the Yeomen of the Guard, did not make last week their traditional search of the cellars of Parliament before it convened to make sure that no explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened quietly with the Lord High Chancellor, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, reading the King's Speech of grieving George V. This began: "My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, I deeply regret I am not addressing you in person...
Last week the Royal Gallery of the Houses of Parliament was being "renovated" for the coming trial. A woolsack was installed for Viscount Hailsham to sit upon in his capacity as Lord High Chancellor and a gilt chair from the King's robing room for use in his other capacity as Lord High Steward. For this occasion the House of Lords official known as Black Rod will carry not his usual black rod but a white rod, for the reason that after sentence is delivered the Lord High Steward must break Black Rod's white rod across...
Died. John Rushworth ("Hell Fire Jack") Jellicoe,first Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, 75, Britain's Wartime Commander of the Grand Fleet, "Hero of Jutland"; of a chill caught at Armistice Day ceremonies; in London. Admiral-of-the-Fleet Jellicoe was told in 1914 that he alone had the power to "lose the War in an afternoon." The afternoon when the overpowering British Grand Fleet met the crack German High Seas Fleet in the Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic Sea proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled...
Free Hands. In advance of the count the wrongest prophecy was made by unfortunate Viscount Rothermere, blundering "Hearst of England." He told Candidate David Lloyd George, who relayed his words to everyone, that the National Government, led by Conservative Prime Minister Baldwin, would secure a majority of 65. Betting odds at the last minute indicated a majority around 175, with Conservative henchmen predicting with true Conservatism that it would be 160. It turned...