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...deepest State secrets. Only the Prime Minister and half a dozen of the highest Treasury officers are supposed to know its make-up before it is "opened" in the House of Commons. Until the moment of delivery it is kept locked in an ancient red morocco budget box. To be sure that the box will open at the right moment, a Government locksmith calls annually on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to oil the lock and fiddle with...
...medal engraved with. a running greyhound, which is supposedly potent enough to commandeer a British warship in an emergency. At the present time there are only three King's Messengers: Major Custance, Lieut. Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled with diplomatic documents to Paris, where they board the Orient Express to Istanbul and Cairo. On the out trip they drop off boxes at Lausanne (for Geneva), Milan (for Rome), Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens, pick up others at the same points on their way home. No King...
...typical example of French feminine mentality! . . . Suppose that France had demanded that we should allow niggers and Moors in French uniforms to garrison Margate, Dover, Folkestone, Eastbourne, Seaford, Brighton and Worthing. . . . As a purely ethnological fact one might argue that the fair-haired, blue-eyed Berbers of Morocco, and the Riffs, who are in fact the last remnants of the Teutonic Vandal Kingdom of Northern Africa, are better white men than the little dark scum of Southern France...
...wise in letting well enough alone. Perhaps the most interesting part of the little book is the explanation of the "Lawrence Legend" which is ascribed almost entirely to the fertile mind of Lowell Thomas and which grew to such proportions that as late as 1931 a tourist in Spanish Morocco was arrested because his second name was Lawrence and the authorities were afraid that he would incite a rebellion of the natives...
...literary criticism, was editor of the famed Mermaid Series that first made Elizabethan drama available to the general public. Marrying in 1891, he began the first volume of his Studies in the Psychology of Sex, which was promptly suppressed as obscene. Ellis then went into voluntary exile in Morocco, wrote Affirmations and A Study of British Genius. His wife died in 1916, and he now lives in semi-retirement in London. His most recent book has a nostalgic flavor. It begins with a chapter on his first impressions of Paris, the result of an exploration he made 45 years...