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Before sunrise on the racetrack a mile away dockers glanced at stopwatches in their hands while horses, unnumbered and ridden by exercise boys or jockeys in sweat shirts, galloped through a soft summer mist. Events of the week...
This gave unintellectual Prime Minister Baldwin the perfect opening for a perfect English retort. "We are being censured for not having any considered plan." said Stanley Baldwin easily. "I have never been a slave to a word. If there is a word that has been ridden to death today it is the word PLAN. I have seen nothing of planning in any foreign country that would lead me to think it is a universal panacea. I don't exactly know what plan is. For some kinds of plans there are books and pamphlets undertaking to cure unemployment...
...Grilled Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare on the subject of Abyssinia and the League during a one-hour question period in which it was intimated that Great Britain's alibi for abandoning Ethiopia to the Italians may be that Ethiopia is a barbarous, slave-ridden country unworthy of League membership. Declaring that Ethiopians had made slave raids on some of Britain's African colonies, Sir William Davison cried: "Does the Foreign Minister not consider Abyssinia as not having fulfilled the expressed condition [abolition of slavery] on which it was admitted to membership of the League...
Forty years ago Detective Cornish, a stolid, hard-working country boy, entered Scotland Yard, trained for three weeks before being sent out to the dives and alleys of crime-ridden Whitechapel. There was no romance, little excitement about the first murder case on which he worked: two thugs killed foolish little Emily Farmer while robbing her tobacco shop, were discovered after a systematic check of all suspicious characters in the neighborhood...
With his white beard waggling in emphasis, Exeter's Gascoyne-Cecil graphically described his latest visit to the U. S., urging British Laborites to go and see for themselves how sordid, graft-ridden and enslaved by party machines he found U. S. Democracy. This brought His Lordship to his point, namely, that the House of Lords ought not to pass the India Bill (TIME, June 17) on second reading last week because it may give Indians a modicum of Democracy. "How are you going to void some great political machine's controlling the great masses of India?" cried...