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Peace. Wrote Author Lyle, before the Armistice: "Back in 1918 peace as an actual fact astounded the world hardly less than the outbreak of the war. . . . On the battlefield we were winning. . . . It was the moment that all German effort during three years had played for ...Germany kept none of her colonies. . . . In the matter of armament she proved as tractable, and for as good a reason. . . . Disarmed, she had naught to fear from democracies disarmed also...
Since the outbreak of World War II, a hearty old Londoner named J. R. B. Branson has urged his countrymen to eat grass, save food supplies (TIME, July 1). Last week British papers published the sad fate of a zealous grass-eater, one John William Bloomfield, 60, of Harleston, Stowmarket, Suffolk. Despite the pleas of his wife, Bloomfield persisted in browsing on the village green. Finally, after stuffing himself, was taken with violent bellyache, was rushed to a hospital. He died soon afterward. Coroner's verdict: "death by misadventure...
...more than $1,000,000 on its enforcement. It is the first year since the trustbusting days of Roosevelt I and Taft (Standard Oil, American Tobacco, Northern Securities, etc.) in which the Government has put on a real Sherman Act show. It is also a year of war, whose outbreak, in the words of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, "was immediately followed . . . by an outbreak of funeral orations over anti-trust enforcement." But last week No. 1 Trustbuster Arnold gave the Sherman Act the liveliest week of its liveliest year. As the funeral orations grew louder and more insistent...
...doddering old Kaiser Wilhelm's spruce young grandsons, Prince Friedrich of Prussia, finding himself in England at outbreak of war, streaked for the Scottish Highlands to stay with his friends, the scrawny Duke and beauteous Duchess of Buccleuch & Queensbury. At the Corona tion in 1937 the Duchess helped to hold the canopy over the Queen. As Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland the Duke has as his subordinate (Deputy Governor) the Queen's father, the Earl of Strathmore. The Duke's sister is the Duchess of Gloucester, sister-in-law of King George...
...given to Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, who is known to his elder sister. Queen Mary, as "Algie." His wife is Princess Alice, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The Earl of Athlone was appointed to the post in 1914, but at the outbreak of World War I decided to stay home and fight...