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Italian King Vittorio Emanuele, who was the Senior Foreign Knight of the Garter and personally stands high in the regard of the British Royal Family, was gazetted out last week with utmost respect. The stall reserved for the Italian King in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, will merely remain vacant, instead of being assigned to some other Knight of the Garter. The knightly banner of the House of Savoy was not destroyed, but placed in the same storage vault which holds that of Kaiser Wilhelm...
...Large fires have broken out on either side of the Thames. . . . Everywhere smoke is arising. . . . The wind is driving a black veil across the slums of London's East End. . . . The German planes have dropped their bombs with the utmost precision. Like gnats over a swamp - so the fighters dance over the grey London fog. Everywhere the eye looks it sees Hurricanes and Spitfires. And, in between, the sharp contours of the Messerschmitts in chase...
...White Committee based its case on a simple argument. It wanted destroyers released so that they could give the utmost service for U. S. defense. The bargain was no trade, as suggested by Senator Pittman, no question of strategy, as raised by Major Eliot, no legal labyrinth. Said William Allen White: "If the British Empire, with all the weight of its democratic economic power and its military strength and naval force, should fall, the United States would be alone in a warlike world. . . . If war is not checked and thwarted in Great Britain, war will come inevitably to the United...
...bronzed Duke, wearing a straw hat, stepped into the Governor's carriage and drove off with Sir Denis behind a spanking team of imported greys. Into the carriage behind mounted the Duchess, Mrs. Hastings-Brooke and the Duke's equerry. With the utmost amiability they drove down Hamilton's flag-and-flower-decked Front Street, turned into Queen Street past Bermuda's only traffic signal, through the heart of town to Government House, enthusiastically cheered by thousands...
...that time he was far more interested in Tibetan art and in the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism. No insulated tripper but a careful student of language and custom, he visited one Buddhist monastery after another in the borderland provinces of Sikkim and Ladak, seeking always Lamas, teachers, of the utmost excellence, and bringing always the conventional offering: unmounted precious stones...