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Crown officials granted permission for a large office building to be erected on the Carleton House terrace block overlooking the Mall. Reporters quickly discovered that such a building will impair the view from Buckingham Palace. The Daily Express immediately recalled an interview with Viscount Esher (son-in-law of New York's August Heckscher) in which he said...
...President called an old friend whom he had known as Lloyd George's political secretary at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919-Rt. Hon. Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle, Baron Ker, 11th Marquess of Lothian...
...House of Peers last week Viscount Masatoshi Okochi demanded that the Premier's slayers should at least be tried. Temporizing, the Minister of the Navy, beefy Vice Admiral Mineo Osumi, called the case "complicated," promised a trial eventually. He then entertained the House of Peers by reading what he said was a confession made by one of the killers, "a young naval officer...
Saito Next? Touchy Japanese patriots boiled afresh last week at rumors that Premier Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito recently "affronted" Emperor Hirohito by speaking out of turn and ahead of His Majesty at the Imperial New Year's Banquet. In or out of turn, what Premier Saito spoke was a eulogy of his Emperor, yet zealots of the Imperial Banner Immortality Association began to distribute a "proclamation" which many a Japanese considered a death threat to Saito...
...appropriations, zooming higher and higher to astronomical figures, have slipped through the frightened Imperial Diet and House of Peers with lightning celerity, whether Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi had the money or had to borrow it. The new Premier has been a General's jewel. He, easy-going Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito (retired), has constantly deferred to the military caste, represented in his Cabinet by Lieut.-General Sadao Araki...