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Successive British Governments have done their Rooseveltian duty ever since. True, by the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1922 the status of "Independent Kingdom" was conferred on Egypt; but Imperial Britain reserved the right to "protect" her "ally" by keeping a military establishment in Egypt and a veritable army of occupation in the Sudan. Duty might have been done along this line indefinitely but for two developments: 1) Egyptian public opinion has crystalized against British occupation so sharply that Deputies returned at the last election were almost solidly anti-British and King Fuad of Egypt (a British puppet) had to dissolve...
...wife. Author Deeping, whose Roper's Row bears some slight hero-resemblance to Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, writes with experience of medicine, which he practiced before and during the World War. Deeping's previous Sorrell and Son was rated part and parcel of Anglo-Saxon realism...
...United States today is a cosmopolitan nation. . . . Citizens of true Anglo-Saxon origin are in meagre minority. During the last 60 years the millions of emigrants from Central Europe, Poles, Slavs, Italians, Sicilians, Jews, Russians, and the Danes, Finns and Swedes, have brought with them into their new home all of Continental Europe's age-old hatred of England...
...million pound capital of British-American Corp. will be privately subscribed, subscribers including Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, Director of Midland Bank (world's largest), Sir John Mullins, whose brokerage firm floats loans for the British Government and the Bank of England, John Howeson, Chairman of Anglo-Oriental Mining Corp., Señior Don Carlos Aramayo, Bolivian Minister to England* and head of Compagnie Aramayo de Mines en Bolivia, great Bolivian tin property. About 80% of British tin producers will be represented in the price control movement and Señior Aramayo's participation is expected to insure support...
...mines now being operated will run out just as the once-famed Cornish tin mines are now virtually exhausted. Meanwhile the demand for tin constantly increases, thus leaving the tin producer in the pleasant position of meeting an increasing demand with a diminishing supply. Chief tin companies are Anglo-Oriental Malaya, Ltd., British company working a majority of the Malayan and Nigerian mines; and the Patino Mines and Enterprise, Consolidated, organized by Bolivia's Simon Patino. Most of the Dutch mines are government controlled...