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David Lloyd George. Grief had welled up in every loyal Briton's heart, and with good cause. The Empire was laying to rest her greatest soldier, the Scotchman who commanded all her armies in France from 1915 until the final victory, Field Marshal Earl Haig (TIME...
Life courses on persistently in the elder heroes of the War. Hindenburg has majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept...
...great and brilliant Earl of Birkenhead. now Secretary of State for India, recently Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), and previously the Right Honorable and irrepressible "Galloper Smith" of the House of Commons, could scarcely have been unaware last week, that his elder daughter, Lady Eleanor Smith, had so far departed from the family tradition of wit as to pen for a London newspaper the following bit of groveling gossip: "A friend of mine has just had installed a type of bath tub which will permit her to receive guests of both sexes while bathing. . . . The bath...
Succeeding the America, the Atlantic was the first of the famed U. S. racing yachts which defeated the Earl of Dun-raven's Valkyries, and in recent years the various Shamrocks of Sir Thomas Lipton. It is usually a syndicate of N. Y. Yacht Club men who finance the defence. The three winning boats this century have been the Columbia, Reliance, Resolute. In memory of the first great triumph the boats race for "America...
Died. Douglas Haig, 66, first Earl Haig, 20th Laird of Bemerside, Com- mander-in-chief of the British armies in the War; in London; of heart failure...