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...vitally interested," he told the startled Mr. Wilbur. "I regard the presence here of this official as notice to Congress that it is not capable of dealing with this question without Cabinet guidance, and in remaining here, the Secretary of the Navy does so over my protest and I regard it as exceedingly bad taste...
...order that they may make the transition, from primary to secondary institutions, the latter being the place in which they begin to prepare for their higher education. Consequently a movement against cramming is under way in both England and Wales, as is indicated in a London protest...
...especially roused at the dismissal of Assistant Under Secretary Gregory because he is remembered in connection with the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" which hastened the fall of James Ramsay MacDonald's Labor Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924). Secretary Gregory, without informing Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary MacDonald, despatched a protest against the Zinoviev letter to Moscow. When news of this move reached the British public it was accepted as proof of the genuineness of the Zinoviev letter (now generally considered a forgery) and materially helped to sway the country away from Laborite MacDonald...
Straightway Sir John Simon, chairman of the Commission, famed Liberal barrister, sat briskly down at his desk, last week, and drew up an offer designed to conciliate 318,940,000 Indians, some thousands of whom rioted in Madras, Calcutta & Bombay last fortnight, in protest against the Commission and notably against the fact that no Indian sits upon...
...still this latter protest Sir John Simon offered, last week, to take Seven Wise Indians into his company of Seven Wise Britons. The Indians, he proposed, could be elected by the Indian Legislative Assembly; and he pledged that they would receive in the Commission "equal status throughout the investigation...