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MacDonald, prospective Labor Premier, would have to choose a Conservative or Liberal friendly to his Party's policies. It was rumored in London last week that Viscount Haldane will be Mr. MacDonald's choice...
Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan, aged 67, is a National Liberal and was Lord Chancellor under Premier Asquith from 1912 to 1915. He is probably one of the most liberal minded peers in the House of Lords, besides being a man of gigantic intellectual gifts. A foremost authority on legal matters, a scholar with numerous degrees attached to his name, and author of several important and interesting philosophical works, it is said that he makes a habit of reading a book each morning before breakfast, a task which he accomplishes with lightning rapidity, and in such...
...session at the Diet. At one point a young man broke through the police cordon, ran a few steps after the Crown Prince's automobile, and, raising a "cane-gun,"* fired at the Prince. The bullet shattered the glass in the machine but did not harm Hirohito. Viscount Tamemori Irlye, Chamberlain to the Prince Regent, was wounded slightly by the falling glass...
...Cabinet. Following the attempt upon the Crown Prince's life, the Cabinet and the Prince played battledore and shuttlecock with the Government. Viscount Shunpei Goto, "Roosevelt of Japan," as Home Minister felt himself responsible for the narrowly averted disaster, and resigned. This lead to the resignation en masse of the remaining members of the Cabinet. The Crown Prince refused to accept the resignations; the Cabinet refused to reconsider its decision to resign. There the matter stood. No forecasts of the composition of the next ministry were made public. The Ministry that resigned was composed of: Premier, Count Gombei Yamamoto; Home...
...recognition both of President Butler's intellectual leadership in America and of his friendship for France as expressed during and since the World War." The only other American member is Woodrow Wilson. Theodore Roosevelt also enjoyed the honor. It is the seat left vacant by the death of Viscount Bryce, which Dr. Butler now takes...