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House of Lords. Viscount Astor, in moving the second reading of his wife's bill to prevent the sale of intoxicants to persons under the age of 18 years, gave Lord Dawson, King's Physician, an opportunity of eulogizing Bacchus. He said that alcohol, if taken in moderation, added to " the pleasure, exhilaration, happiness and gayety of life." For the practical purposes of the bill he said that alcohol was not necessary to youth, as experience showed that it was at the tender ages damaging to the nervous system...
...Viscount Haldane, ex-Secretary of State for War, and Viscount Grey, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, criticized the Government's project for a naval base at Singapore. Lord Haldane wanted to know the nation against which the Government felt bound to prepare defense.' The Marquis of Salisbury, replying, said that it was quite easy for the noble Lord to ask such a question, but difficult to answer discreetly...
...Viscount Grey of Falloden has been mentioned as his successor. As Lord Grey is a Liberal it is hardly likely that he will accept office under a Conservative Government. Undoubtedly he would be the best man, but Lord Robert Cecil seems to be more in the running...
Lord Astor (who is the son of the first Viscount Astor and who succeeded to his father's title in 1919) said all this before the Durham clergy...
...Institute of Politics, which will open at Williams College (Mass.) on July 27, will be addressed, for the first time, by a German. Count Harry Kreisler, Germany's first Minister to Poland and leader of the "Nie-Wieder-Krieg" demonstrations in Berlin, is the German representative. Viscount Birkenhead and Sir Edward Grigg, formerly political secretary to Lloyd George, will attend from Great Britain, and Canon Ernest Dimnet, professor in the College Stanislas at Paris, from France. Sir Paul Vinogradov, the eminent professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, formerly a resident of Moscow, will deliver a course of public lectures...