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...tailors sedulously cut their patterns after the models of Bond Street. Even more slavishly does Fleet Street ape the pattern of U. S. journalism.. Last week on British news stalls were displayed not one but two new magazines, frankly plagiarizing TIME...
...first issue was caught between two reigns, thus requiring an eight page take-out on the death of George V, the ascension of Edward VIII. Alan Cameron is not only Cavalcade's editor but half its staff. The other half is Publisher William James Brittain, a rising Fleet Streeter who was once assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Sunday Express. Impartial observers thought that on merit Brittain's Cavalcade would outlast Korda's News Review. But Publisher Korda was confident that he would be publishing both sheets within three months...
That the Germans were also entitled to sink the Lusitania was roundly declared last week by one of Britain's highest naval authorities, Admiral the Earl of Cork and Orrery, commander of the British Home Fleet (1933-35), President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Admiral Commanding the Royal Naval War College (1929-32). To a London audience, over which gradually fell a great hush, the Admiral declared: "The Lusitania might have been used to transport 10,000 American troops on a single voyage to fight Germany. If women and children choose to cruise about in war areas...
That His Majesty remains personally fit & fleet. King Edward showed by donning shorts in which he ran last week from Fort Belvedere three miles to Windsor Lodge. Most dignified and well received was the King's first message to Parliament, read by the Comptroller of His Majesty's Household, thrifty Sir George Penny...
...Member of the English Parliament will suggest to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin next week the plan of placing British naval bases at the disposal of American warships; a proposal which, if carried out, will deeply affect the present position of the United States at the Naval Conference. The American fleet, especially in the Pacific, has to contend with the important problem of few bases at great distances from one another; consequently, the United States' representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing to this lack of bases...