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...both knew that Germany was coming through Belgium, and the English even tried to get the consent of Belgium to the landing of her troops there as soon as the war might break out. Germany's violation of Belgian neutrality was merely a convenient pretext by means of which Viscount Grey could save his face, and make England's participation in the war seem to ensue from entirely chivalric motives. Moreover, Grey had pledged England to support France in the war which they all knew was inevitable before Germany ever invaded Belgium...
...entirely to determine the policy of that department while himself holding the title of Finance Minister as a mere adornment to that of Premier. When the Katsura Government fell, he entered the House of Peers,* became Finance Minister. While serving in this post he associated himself with the great Viscount Kato, then Foreign Minister; and together they fostered the policy of bringing Japan into the War on the side of the Allies. Such is the status of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki, successor to his late friend and leader Premier Viscount Kato (TIME, Feb. 8). With the passing of Kato the strength...
...Nephew of encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane, lord chancellor of the Ramsay Macdonald (1924) Labor cabinet; author of Daedalus and Callinicus in the widely-read "Today and Tomorrow Series" of prophetic essays (E. P. Dutton & Co.); prophet of the extinction of agriculture (by synthetic foods); savior of child life by his discovery of ammonium chloride as a cure for convulsions...
...auction room of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, the sale of Viscount Leverhulme's furniture, his rare porcelains, his tapestries and paintings (TIME, Feb. 22), went steadily on. In the past fortnight the auctioneer has applied that word "sold" to the following objects, among others...
...Books. Viscount Leverhulme was not much of a reader. He liked to look at books with pictures in them, the kind of pictures he saw in Punch or on theatrical handbills. He collected old mezzotints and caricatures, and would sit for hours with one of his scrapbooks in his lap, staring at the twisted faces and bright colors as if he were reading some racy tale. The people who bought his books were on the lookout for collections such as these; they, like Leverhulme, cared little for literature, and so it came about that first editions of Thackeray were knocked...