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Significance. The Chaplin case was momentous in British newspaperdom as the first divorce action to test thoroughly the new suppressive law. Was it well that Britons could not read the details of the case, or, in the words of Viscount Burnham, proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, is the law "an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities...
...Damme Sir! We love you for yourself!"--Viscount Byng to Edward, Prince of Wales...
Last week, Viscount Julian Byng of Vimy, onetime Governor General of Canada (1921-26), presided in London at a banquet attended by Edward of Wales and there loosed what Queen Victoria would have called "a fearful oath...
...came when toasts were going around. Raising his glass, and turning to Edward, the grizzled soldier-Viscount cried: "Damme Sir! We love you for yourself...
...Smith, Viscount Furneaux and Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "As a member of the fashionably rowdy London Kit-Cat Club I assumedly viewed with alarm the publicity which it received last week, due to the shocking behavior of a Lord. Driven by one 'Teddy Oysters,' valiant old-school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering...