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...Prince of Wales' standard to the roar of guns and cheers of crowds as she casts anchor at Portsmouth and moves with silent, increasing speed past the Blockhouse Fort and across Spithead on the initial stage of the "Pragger-Wagger's" fourth† official trip as Royal Ambassador...
Nigeria. The Repulse is due to arrive here Apr. 14 and to depart Apr. 22. The Prince will land at Lagos and proceed by railway into the heart of the colony, where another hunting trip will be in order after a polite and royal interest has been shown in Nigerians and Nigerian pursuits...
...Minister of Education C. P. Trevelyan, Laborite, offered a motion (defeated by 255 to 133 votes- majority of 122) to transfer to Parliament the royal prerogative of concluding treaties with foreign powers upon the advice of the Cabinet. If the motion were defeated; the next Labor Government would see that it was carried, he said. The motion was designed to preclude secret treaties; but Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, stated that all treaties with foreign powers were even now registered in their entirety with the League of Nations...
...proposed at his own expense to erect a statue to Galileo, famed scientist, equally famed as a heretic. Pisa went mad. Nevertheless, he is extremely popular and is known as the "War Cardinal" because he advocated a fight-to-the-finish policy. He is a great friend of the Royal Family and it is rumored that Premier Mussolini once suggested making him a Senator, an unprecedented occurrence since 1870, which would have gone far to heal the long quarrel between Government and Pope...
...heart! Stimulated by the thought that "the shallow end is often much deeper than we think," the gallant Major considers, among other trivia: Midnight Revels (at home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused. The soundings of the shallow end remain about as charted...