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...sooner were his words out than fiery Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan bawled: "Isn't it time that certain honorable Members shouldn't act as pimps of the Governments...
Hamilton would and did. Mayor Leo Welsh and his City Council appointed a Hamilton Citizens Military Affairs Committee, chairmanned by strapping, greying Vice President Clarke Marion of Champion Paper and Fibre Co., staffed with local businessmen. The committee drew up the Hamilton Plan for National Defense...
Cracking records is nothing new to Ab Jenkins. Son of a Welsh master mechanic who went to the U. S. to supervise the construction of a Kansas steel mill (and settled in Utah because his wife had joined the Mormon Church), young Ab-christened David Abbott-was a bike racer in the early days of the Century, later raced motorcycles on half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back...
...fatally exposed their left flank, the British, who were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
Killed in Action. General Gaston Henri Gustave Billotte, 65, pre-war Military Governor of Paris, Commander of the First French Army in Flanders; in an auto accident while commanding his troops. Hugo Hesketh Hughes, 38, 2nd lieutenant in the Welsh Guards, seven-goal British polo star; in action in Flanders. Jacques and Jean Denain, aviator sons of former Air Minister French General Victor Leon Ernest Denain; shot down returning from air raids over Germany. Sir Henry George Alan Percy, 27, Ninth Duke of Northumberland, England's largest coal owner (1939 income: $345,000); in France...