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...absence the word "humbug" had been applied in the House of Commons by Secretary of State for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas to the proposals which Mr. Bennett made at the opening of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct. 20). Back in London, Canada's Bennett, a devout and wealthy bachelor, maintained silence for several days. When it became plain that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain had no intention of offering voluntary apology to His Majesty's Government in Canada for the use by a responsible Minister of the Crown of the word...
...orator, he speaks cautiously and without humor. His political motto: "Don't rock the boat." Out of Congress: He lives frugally at the Woodley Apartments in Washington, avoids society. He is uneasy among strangers, has few close friends. His hobby: solitaire. He smokes inexpensive cigars, is a devout Methodist, rides to the Capitol on the street car. He holds a part-time paid position on the national council of the Woodmen of the World. Each year he saves some of his $10,000 Congressional salary...
...Douglas "confession" was written to Harris in 1927. By then Douglas had become a devout Roman Catholic and had been married a long time. Says he: "A little more than a year after Wilde's death I married. Such perverted instincts as I had disappeared completely as soon as I lost contact with Wilde and his immediate entourage." Douglas openly accuses Wilde of pederasty but denies any complicity on his part. Harris is inclined to believe this...
...hope of winning back Austria. The best she can expect from Czechoslovakia is a sort of benevolent neutrality. Hence her League of Prayer and the proposed beatification of her husband.* For months Royalist agents and pro-Habsburg priests have been circulating petitions to the Vatican, among the devout, recounting stories of miracles occurring near Karl's tomb in the Church of the Madonna del Monte at Funchal, Madeira. Czechoslovakian Catholics, such is the royalist reasoning, may not want to rejoin Hungary, but they are bound to think well of a Hungarian King whose father was the Blessed Karl...
Actually there is little likelihood that the Vatican will ever beatify indomitable Zita's husband. Kaiser Karl was a devout Catholic, led a respectable life, was conscientious as an army officer. His fault was that, flaccid and morally spineless to a degree, he was trusted from one moment to the next by no one, from his great- uncle Franz Josef I to his royal "cousin" Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The two years (1916-18) in which he wore the slightly age-battered crown of St. Stephen were a succession of backings and fillings and unfulfilled political pledges...