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...Angkor Vat French publicity, with a few potent exceptions, is the world's worst. "Wembley" was on every man's tongue before the British Empire Exposition opened (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924) and colossally failed.? By contrast the awkwardly named Exposition des Arts Decor atijs at Paris in 1925 was almost a secret at the time, yet it touched off the bombshell of Modernistic Art, gave furniture and architecture a whirl that is dizzying people yet. So atrocious is French publicity that a broadside recently fired in English by the Ministry of Colonies begins with this sentence...
...roar of Zeppelin engines is a horrid sound to British ears. Last week 100,000 of His Majesty's subjects, gathered in the presence of George V and Queen Mary at famed Wembley Stadium, booed and jeered the Graf Zeppelin...
Nosing over to England from the Fatherland, the long silver cigar radioed down a question: "Where is the King?" Up flashed the answer: "At Wembley." The long cigar nuzzled over toward the stadium. Not since Zeppelins last bombed England 14 years ago has a German airship flown over London. For good measure the Graf skimmed Buckingham Palace at a height of barely 200 ft., seemed almost to brush the treetops...
...Wembley the Sovereign was doing his royal best to seem as interested in the Arsenal-Huddersfield soccer match for the "English Cup'' as were most of the excited spectators. When the Graf nosed down and dipped her flag in salute to royalty there were angry cries of "Get out of the light!" and a peppery person was heard to storm: "How did those Germans know the King was here! Spies! Spies every one of them...
...arsenal football team of London: a 2-0 match with Huddersfield Town at Wembley Stadium, watched by King George, the Duke of York, 100,000 British subjects, and the personnel of the Graf Zeppelin...