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...smoky Belfast last week hulking Premier Viscount Craigavon, who looks like an oldtime hotel detective and stands solidly for the allegiance of Northern Ireland ("Ulster") to the British Crown, rumbled: "Ulster again is assured of five years of a resolute and settled government. I shall carry on, encouraged by the victory over the destructive elements arrayed against our imperial stronghold...
Their leader last week was Lord Hugh Cecil, member of a famed Anglo-Catholic family, brother of Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil and of the grey-bearded Bishop of Exeter. Lord Hugh announced he would promote a suit against Bishop David before the Archbishop of York, if someone would supply legal evidence of the Bishop's misdeeds. Exclaimed Lord Hugh: "If a Unitarian may preach under a Bishop's authority, who can reasonably complain about departures from the text of the prayerbook? We shall hardly be able to resist the polemics of the Roman Catholics when they tell...
...affairs cause wider repercussions. Only in England could laymen become as excited as they did last week over a second church quarrel, one which involved the English Church Union. A venerable body, long considered high church, the Union has been headed by 94-year-old Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, a stout Anglo-Catholic who from 1863 to 1877 was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. Last week Viscount Halifax resigned his post largely because in its official publication the Church Union had made what he called a "vicious attack" on the Anglo-Catholic Congress...
Died. Andrew Rattray, 51, professional big game hunter and zebra farmer, son-in-law of Viscount Furness; after an operation; in Nairobi, British East Africa...
Without consulting Premier Viscount Makato Saito or obtaining the consent of the civilian Cabinet, Militarist Araki called in correspondents and proposed that Japan hold in 1935 a Pacific Powers Conference with three objectives: 1) "To revise the Nine-Power Treaty" (signed at Washington to guarantee the territorial and administrative integrity of China which Japan violated by seizing Manchukuo). 2) "To revise the Kellogg Peace Pact" (violated in effect by Japan's waging of undeclared war). 3) "To lay the basis for a new naval treaty...