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This was in 1553 and there was no further Edward until 1901-a period of 348 years-when the grandfather of last week's new King took the Throne as Edward VII and founded the Anglo-French entente which was to defeat Germany. Such was the talent of Victorians that by memorizing only the following 20 lines one has upon tongue-tip all the sovereigns of England from the Conqueror to Victoria...
...message, read by Japanese with absolute fury last week, was a British proposal to President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes for Anglo-U. S. naval parity. The Japanese Government had relied on Great Britain, as their Wartime ally, not to make any sub rosa deal with the U. S., and Washington's great Naval Conference was not yet thought of. Japanese editors last week filled their papers with wrathful recollections of how. after the Washington Conference opened in November 1921, the British delegation professed to be "surprised" when Secretary of State Hughes proposed what afterward was adopted...
...tragic young King of the Belgians, will attempt the hazardous role of Italo-Ethiopian Peace Maker which cost Sir Samuel Hoare his Foreign Ministry and shook the prestige of Premier Laval of France. . . . Rumors current in European diplomatic quarters for several weeks that Leopold was endeavoring to bridge Anglo-Italian differences are based upon fact." Two days before, Paris Correspondent Edmond Taylor of the Chicago Tribune went off the same deep end. In Geneva fear of another "Deal" concocted behind the League's back caused Leaguophile correspondents to raise loud alarms. Their spokeswoman, Mme Geneviéve Tabouis, declared...
...late Lewis Baker Warren left a bequest of $1,000,000 to Yale University to be used for scholarships to students "who shall be the sons of white Christian parents and Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian or Teutonic descent, both of whom were citizens of the United States and were born in America...
...strangest thing about this strange bequest is that Mr. Warren believed that it would be a memorial to the "best ideals and traditions of the Anglo-Saxon race, to which the United States owes its culture," and that the boys receiving scholarships of this character would "best exemplify" such traditions...