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...fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered. At it gnomish, crippled Philip Snowden, splenetic Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, heaved the clods of his second volume of autobiography...
Pleasant royal legends die hard. Lord Snowden's revelations proved anything but popular. Typical of Empire editorial reaction was a dressing-down which the dyspeptic Viscount received from Ottawa's sturdy Evening Citizen: "He [Snowden] is on record as having kowtowed as Chancellor to the Lords of 'sound' money just as much as Ramsay MacDonald has been Chanticleer in the hen-run of society dowagers. The Prime Minister's chaste cheek may have been impressed with various flavors of London society's lipstick, but Comrade Snowden is in the House of Lords because...
Spanish nerves were still taut. After a late afternoon outburst of firing in Madrid, 12,000 retired army officers and an association of noblemen headed by the Viscount of Cubas stepped forward to offer their services to the Government. Snapped a potent Deputy: "This uncertainty, if it continues, will end in military dictatorship. The Government should take the most drastic steps...
...husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners arose from the Government bench. In his own right Alfred Duff Cooper, M. P., is Financial Secretary at the War Office and a special protege of Conservative Leader Baldwin. When Patron Baldwin was being attacked with special savagery by the Press of Viscount Rothermere, Protege Duff Cooper publicly declared that "Lord Rothermere hasn't got the guts of a louse!" (TIME, March 23, 1931). Last week he turned with scorn no less withering upon James Maxton...
Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount Allenby, stiff, soldierly hero of Palestine, reached Quebec bound for a reunion with Canadian War comrades at Toronto. Asked about another war, Lord Allenby pronounced: "The situation is like a number of small boys calling one another names across the street. One says, 'You come on over and fight in my yard.' The other says, 'You come on over and fight in mine.' The result, of course, is that nobody fights...