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...sympathy. They, like everyone else, knew that they were there largely to put their own thoughts on record, and then to give approval to what had already been agreed to by the U.S., Great Britain and Russia. At the public opening session China's spokesman, Dr. Wellington Koo, got applause even from the supposedly callous correspondents...
...week a Government spokesman, Senator Norman Lambert, said that he hoped Ottawa, like Washington, would become a federal district. Many Ottawans, who think their annual grant of $100,000 from the Federal Government is much too small, hope so too. The city owes its existence to the Duke of Wellington, who in 1826 sent Royal Engineer Colonel John By to build the Rideau Canal through to Lake Ontario, lest Americans close the St. Lawrence. Queen Victoria chose the resulting settlement as Canada's capital, after rioting Tories had burned the Parliament Buildings in nearby Montreal...
...modern vein, that what appealed to Shakespeare's Desdemona most was Othello's dark skin. Cried Critic Henry Crabb Robinson: "A gross attack on the pretensions to chastity in women." As political commentator, Hazlitt was even more savage. He once called the future Duke of Wellington "a weak mind and an able body," King Ferdinand of Spain "a royal marmoset." If he had not written so brilliantly, he might soon have found no editor to publish him. Hazlitt sometimes confused integrity with tactlessness. "I never wrote a line," he swaggered, "that licked the dust...
...probably seen more fighting against the Germans than any living British commander, unless it be General Freyberg, who is also in the fray. . . ." General Freyberg, as you may know, is a New Zealander. Rommel characterized them as the finest fighting men among the Nazis' enemies. . . . Freyberg is from Wellington College, New Zealand. . . . After he became a hero at Gallipoli in 1915, Freyberg returned on special leave to New Zealand. He visited Wellington College to talk to the boys who had come behind him, of whom...
...Arnold Cooper Club is sponsoring a dance at the Mortan Plaza, 156 Wellington Hill Street, Dorchester, Saturday at 2000. There will be refreshments, hostesses, and prizes...