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Belfast bowed stiffly last week to Dublin. The Rt. Hon. Viscount Craigavon, Premier of Northern Ireland, revoked the decree which has barred from Northern Ireland that notorious person Eamon de Valera...
...London's Covent Garden will have no opera this spring. The British Government has withdrawn the subsidy of �17,600 given last year when Viscount Snowden, husband of music-loving Ethel Annakin Snowden, was Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Tardieu's words? They called the French security plan "a beautiful fable lacking a moral." With fine Roman cynicism the Italian delegation whispered around a witticism to the effect that M. Tardieu, facing 57 armed states, had proposed to create a 58th. And that great liberal, cultured Viscount Cecil, said: "The French proposition starts at the wrong end. Let them first tell us what measures of Disarmament they are willing to take...
Lions are occasionally seen on the Nairobi, British East Africa golf course. There is also a cinema theatre, but apart from these diversions life in Nairobi can be excessively dull. The Hon. Averill Furness, 23-year-old daughter of Viscount Furness, shipbuilding tycoon, and Andrew Rattray, her father's so-year-old professional hunter, found it so one evening last month as they finished dinner. Next morning, with a maid and a typist as the only witnesses, they were secretly married. Lord Furness was out in the bush hunting lions. To break the news to her father, Mrs. Rattray dispatched...
Like his King, whose mouthpiece he is, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough, Baron of Bessborough, Viscount Duncannon, Baron Ponsonby, Baron Duncannon, opened the Dominion Parliament last week with pomp & splendor imitative of the ancient rituals of Westminster. Unlike George V, who uses a coach & eight, the Governor General rode to the Houses of Parliament in an automobile. As the clock in Ottawa's Peace Tower struck three, Princess Louise Dragoons escorted him into the Parliamentary Driveway, stiff lines of foot soldiers snapped to salute, a band played "God Save the King." Out stepped Lord Bessborough, Lady Bessborough...