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...Government replying categorically denied every point made by the opposition. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Lieutenant Colonel Amery, stressed the fact that the base was not intended as an aggressive measure against either Japan or the United States. He pointed out that the latter country was strengthening its fortifications outside the zone of non-fortification laid down in the Quadruple Pacific Treaty at Washington. This was immediately greeted by ironical cheers from the Labor benches intermingled with " You've started the race!" " Suicide Club...
...House of Lords. Viscount Astor, in moving the second reading of his wife's bill to prevent the sale of intoxicants to persons under the age of 18 years, gave Lord Dawson, King's Physician, an opportunity of eulogizing Bacchus. He said that alcohol, if taken in moderation, added to " the pleasure, exhilaration, happiness and gayety of life." For the practical purposes of the bill he said that alcohol was not necessary to youth, as experience showed that it was at the tender ages damaging to the nervous system...
Standing near the place where Charles I was condemned to death and Cromwell was proclaimed Lord Protector; in the place where the King's Champion used to ride in on a charger and challenge to mortal combat anyone who questioned the right of the King to the Crown; where for many years Coronation Banquets were held, King George V said that " Westminster Hall appealed in a special manner to the mind and manner of the whole English-speaking race. For centuries it had witnessed the growth of the Constitution and had been, as it were, a link between...
...title has been in abeyance since 1497 on the death of a niece of the third baron, who was 10 years Lord High Treasurer of England. After considerable research the late Lady Bewicke-Copley, wife of the late Brigadier General Sir Alington Bewicke-Copley, was able to trace her ancestry back to the first baron. Her son, Captain Bewicke-Copley, thus becomes the fourth Baron Cromwell...
...soon afterwards ordained elder, made his influence felt by his " indomitable will, persuasive eloquence, executive ability, shrewdness and zeal,'' and was ordained one of the " twelve apostles " who were sent out in 1835 as missionaries to the " gentiles." He was given the title of "The Lion of the Lord...