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This Means You. In Atlanta, an overhead sign broke loose from its chain, dropped, beaned Smoker Loy L. Warr, who then discovered that the sign read: "No Smoking...
...Board of Education's 39-year-old President, Earl De La Warr, and First Commissioner of Works Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ram's Bottom) also landed in each other's chair. Cabinet critics waited to see what sort of stuff this new & bigger job brought out of young De La Warr, who in World War I was a conscientious objector who showed his nerve by serving on a mine sweeper...
Because city schoolhouses were closed or pre-empted by war agencies, city school children enjoyed a long holiday. Lord De La Warr, president of Britain's Board of Education, estimated that at least 400,000 city children got "no schooling or care at all," ran wild in the streets. Said a worried London welfare officer: "Some children in the East End are going to bed at midnight and rising at noon. One magistrate has commented to me that we are encouraging a generation of Artful Dodgers." By last week the Board of Education agreed to reopen city schools...
...Somers Cocks, Lord Somers, Deputy Chief Scout of Britain's Boy Scouts, issued a war order to all scouts to wear their uniforms, himself appeared in the House of Lords in Scout shorts. Commented the London Evening Standard: "His costume aroused little comment. Ever since Lord De la Warr entered the House during the last war in the bell-bottomed trousers of an able-bodied seaman, their lordships have learnt to take many strange uniforms in their stride...
...Cabinet itself was split by the issue. Lord Halifax, Minister of Health Walter Elliot, President of the Board of Education Earl De La Warr and Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, were for no more appeasement. But Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, the two most influential Cabinet members outside of Mr. Chamberlain, were in favor of taking it easy and doing nothing. Sir John's appeasement of aggressors began in 1932 when, as Foreign Secretary, he virtually welcomed Japan's invasion of Manchuria-much to the chagrin...