Word: england
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Henry H. Colpus, 76, who claimed to be the firstborn (illegitimate) son of King Edward VII of England; in St. Petersburg,. Fla. His story: "My mother ... a young widow ... on her way to the Ascot races . . . was passing through Windsor Park alone when she met the young Prince [of Wales] She did not go to the races at all. He took her away. . . . My mother was a Quakeress and she felt that it was a spiritual marriage. But... he could not acknowledge her as his wife because he was the Prince of Wales. She wept and he gave...
...insure that the consecrated Host shall not be subjected to indignity or outrage, the Catholic Church has legislated in great detail. Last week the Primate of England's Catholics, Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, reminded his priests of what they should do in case of an air raid during Mass. If the Host has not been consecrated, said His Eminence, the Mass should be stopped at once, to be resumed later if possible. But if the consecration has been performed, the priest must consume the Host and wine, then end the Mass. Should the Host be lost during a raid...
...General Staff in a common offensive against Rumania." Two weeks later, when Germany invaded Poland, Hungary was neutral. Said Tabouis, two days before Stalin signed a trade agreement with Hitler: "Foreign observers in Berlin learned last night that a basis for agreement has been reached in Moscow by France, England Russia, Poland, Rumania and Turkey...
Tabouis's influence is not confined to France: her observations are syndicated abroad, are taken more seriously in England and the U. S. than they are at home. Last year a London Catholic journal, The Tablet, called her "one of the gravest of contemporary international dangers." Said The Tablet: "There is no era of history and no country of the world upon which she is not incompetent to write. . . . There can, indeed, be few other living writers who are as ignorant of anything as Mme Tabouis is of everything...
From within a pub at Weymouth (England) after hours, a passing constable one night last week heard a cheerio voice propose: "Come on, let's have one for the road." His duty was clear. He routed out the publican, haled him before a magistrate. But the laugh was on the constable. The voice from within was no after-closing tosspot's, it was Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen, No. 1 Nazi propagandist to Britons, tossing off a Briticism over short-wave radio...