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...Lord Birkenhead met his future wife in his undergraduate days. He never had any connection with " Corpus," having been a member of Wadham College, a fellow of Merton College, a lecturer of Oriel College...
Reginald McKenna is 60 years of age and a Senior Wrangler of Cambridge. He became Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1905, President of the Board of Education 1907, First Lord of the Admiralty 1908, Home Secretary 1911, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Soviet Government proposed to recall M. Leonid Krassin, Soviet Trade Commissioner in London, and replace him with M. Christian Rakovski, one time associate of Foreign Minister Georges Tchicherin. The change was to all intents and purposes completed (TIME, Aug. 13), when Lord Curzon demanded that M. Rakovski's departure from Moscow should be delayed pending investigations into some of his anglophobe utterances...
...Trade Commissioner is Russia's nearest approach to an ambassador, the British Government had every right to refuse to receive M. Rakovski as the Russian representative. Conversely the Soviet Government could and probably would refuse to receive Lord Curzon as British representative at Moscow...
...year ago the British Minister of Health, in view of wide public agitation and controversy between the National Council for Combatting Venereal Diseases and the Society for the Prevention of Venereal Diseases, and at the suggestion of Lord Dawson, the King's physician, appointed a committee to investigate and bring in an authoritative pronouncement on the most efficient medical measures for preventing syphilis and gonorrhea, and the ethical justification for their use. The committee contained some of the most distinguished and impartial names in England, including Lord Trevethin (former Lord Chief Justice) as Chairman, Dr. John Brownlee, Prof. Georges...