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Rain poured. Nineteen guns boomed. The Empress of Scotland docked at Quebec last week bearing Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, the new Governor General of Canada (TIME, June...
Controlling himself, Viscount Cecil rapped out that from what he knew of the incident at Wanhsien it was "not at all as described...
...Baron and Baroness Byng sailed from Quebec on the Empress of France, the newly appointed Governor General, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon (TIME, June 21), embarked with Lady Willingdon at Southampton on the Empress of Scotland. Meanwhile Mr. King had formed the following Cabinet...
...Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon: "I have written another book, this time not on war* but on birds, beasts, flowers. I wrote about my sanctuary for waterfowl. Said I: 'There is a sort of romance in having naturally shy birds, perfectly free and unpinioned, coming ... to feed with perfect confidence out of my hand. . . .' Then I wrote of the late Theodore Roosevelt, how once he and I spent 20 hours studying bird song in the wilds of Hampshire. Said I: '. . . [Roosevelt] had a real feeling and taste for bird song...
...Viscount Ishii, thus called upon to take the floor, read rapidly the formula of compromise arrived at by secret negotiations among the Great Powers and drafted in its final form early last week by the Council commission created for that purpose (TIME, Sept. 6). Those present remarked that Viscount Ishii's purring syllables, impassive mien and gestureless delivery suggested a Buddhist deity bringing to Christians surcease from strife. As the last word was uttered, M. Benes darted a keen glance about the horseshoe-shaped Council table: "There are no objections? Then the resolution is adopted...