Word: welshness
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...Basque!" cried he, shaking his white mane. "Marshal Foch was a Basque! The Welsh and the Basques are the same race...
...notoriously bad and was instigated by Mrs. Simpson. His professions of great concern for the unemployed which were used by his clique of cronies, headed by Esmond Harmsworth, as the weapon to upset the Government were rather insincere when compared with the facts. He gave ?10, ($50) on his Welsh visit, for the unemployed. On the other hand, he dismissed hundreds of employees at Balmoral & Sandringham, and sold off everything on these properties which was salable, and with the money thus saved and raised, he bought priceless emeralds for Mrs. Simpson. These emeralds were the property of Queen Alexandra...
...what he called the "greatest conflict between moral and civil rights" in Pennsylvania's history, Governor Earle made his position clear at the outset of his tour. Virtually all anthracite miners are descendants of English, Irish. Welsh and Slavic laborers imported for the purpose since 1830. "The operators,'' said the Governor, "brought these people into the mining regions and made millions off them. Then they suddenly closed down the mines and said, 'Go make your living on thin air.' I am afraid there can be no solution until the operators recognize their moral obligations...
...King fortnight ago visited the depressed areas of South Wales (TIME, Nov. 30), and was overheard to exclaim to Welsh proletarians: "Something must be done for Wales!" This having been printed by Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, Baron Camrose's Daily Telegraph hotly retorted: "Those who would make a whip to beat the Ministers out of the kind and human feelings the King has shown are not helping the depressed areas but are doing His Majesty a grave disservice...
This was not entirely the King's fault, for his entourage did everything in their power to insulate His Majesty last week from serious matters. A copy of the open letter from Welsh jobless was handed to one of the royal equerries at Cwmbran, another to the equerry at Pontypool, and copies were even strewn on the streets walked by Edward VIII. When the Chairman of the Blaenavon Town Council dragged the petition into a conversation with His Majesty, the King appeared to know nothing about it, asked, "Where is it? I want to read...