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Fit For A Queen: Col. Lynch's Trial: Samuel Butler: Not Really Hapsburg: Premier As Epstein's Model: Maj. Gen. Dugan: Mr. Hugh Ruttledge: The Archbishop Of Canterbury: Two Great Men
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LEAGUE
Entry Question Not Yet Discussed.
London, Apr 14. The Soviet is very seriously con- sidering her position vis-a-vis the League of Nations with a view to membership.
that, the
Reuter understands question of Russia's entry into the League has not yet entered the stage of discussing the practical conditions of such a step, while toast,
the Soviet leaders are generally Mark Twain was determind to | favourably disposed. made that speech In his third and final letter he writes:
London, March 23. ngent, who had informed the author, that be was to be invited THE PRIMATE'S · VERSATILITY" to a St. Andrew's dinner and The Archbishop of Canterbury,might be asked to respond to a seemed destined to a great career at the Bar until he forsook it to be ordained.
In his curacy in Leeds he lived in a slum. house in which there was barely room to stand upright, e has never forgotten that in- timate contact with submerged lives.
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As the head of the Anglican Communion, his Grace has daily | o deal with problems from all parts of the world. In addition
e is a diocesan bishop. To-day for instance, he is instituting a new incumbent in the diocese of Canterbury and to-morrow preaching at Sheerness."
“CHRQUARD!"
It is obvious, however, that the "Soviet will not consider any pro- posals that would place her in a position or inferiori.y.
It is understood that the Soviet feels that if Britain and France make it 'plain that the Soviet would be welcome at Geneva, then the minor difficulties, such as the dis- inclination of Switzerland and other small countries on the Coun cil to recognise the Soviet, would easily be overcome-Reuter,
Mark Twain made his speech SIGNOR SUVICH TO VISIT and received all the advertising desired.
COL. LYNCH'S TRIAL
LONDON
London, April 13: Colonel Arthur Lynch's death Signor Suvich, Under-Secretary recalls to a colleague who was of Sate at the Italian Ministry present a dramatic scene at his of Foreign Affairs, will arrive in trial; three, red-robed judges on London, on a courtesy visit ön the Bench, very grave; the pri- April 23 and is expected, to stay soner rising between warders to until the morning of the 26th, receive the Jixy's" verdict.
He will be the guest of the Fbt- "Look to him! He stands.com-eign Secretary, Sir John Simon, ät I recently stated that the Sta-victed of High Treason!" said the a dinner, at the Foreign Office on. visky case had given the Parisians Clerk of the Crown in a lond April 23. He has been invited to voice. It was the ancient dine at the Middle Temple on the a hew verb stavisquer" to my-
formula. One atmost expected the following day and a reception will stify with sinister intent.
Yerterday Maitre Rene Renoult, barbarous sentence of the Middle be given in his honour at the Ita-
Ages to follow..
lian Embassy on the evening of the a former Minister of Justice, was
It was Mr. Justice Wills, the 25th.-British Wireless. hooted by lawyers at the Palais
and most humane of de Justice: "Stavisky, a bas les mildest
judges, to whom fell the duty of chequards!" they cried, A "che Guard" being a person who is condemning Lynch to death by
hanging. supposed to have received cheque from that notorious swindler.
a
THE FREE STATE SENATE Mr. de Valera's attempt to abolish the Free State, Senate will if it succeeds, sweep away a body whose membership is restricted to those who have"done honour to the nation by public service" or who are outstanding in the national life.
threatened with demolition. Its means by no disappearance follows.
"
The passage of the judge's ex- hortation (it was much · more
The Inn possesses the last note- than formal. sentence) which re- mains strongest in my colleague's houses bullt before the Great worthy group of brick dwelling- memory was when he dwelt on the gravity of treason:
Fire of London. One goes back And against what a sovereign, to 1824, and the ball is in part
older. still..
а
and what a country. did you lift
your hand.
Against Sovereign the best beloved and the most deeply honoured of all the long line of England's Kings
and Queens! . ' ---
W. B. Yeats, the poet, was a There the judge's voice rang notable example of those Sena- with indignation. COL Lynch tors who come under the second long survived the Boer War to du heading.
I service
to the country against Under the Treaty the Senate, is which he once fought. composed of 60 member- 30 no- minated by the President of the Executive Counell and 30 elected. Sy the Dail
The late Mr. Willett, of Day- light Saving fame, acquired the whole property at his first bld of £100,000, but found insuperable, difficulties in the way of develop-
ment.
2
Clifford's Inn's last owners, Eyre and Spottiswoode, the printers, abandoned a project for rebuilding there, and sold their interest four or five months ago to an investment trust. This on Saturday served notice on all the tenants.
A HOUSE. FIT FOR A QUEEN
Sir Austen Chamberlain is to
A friend who lived in Clifford's Of the 30 nominated members; ask the Prime Minister in the 15 were to serve for 12 years, and House of Commons "to-day "what Inn tells me that his neighbour steps have been taken to fulfi for some years was Samuel Butler. 15 for six of the elected mem-
an undertaking, given in 1927, The author of "Erewhon," Ders, 15 were to serve for nine.
whose fame now stands 80 high and 15 for three. Casual vacan- that the range of buildings at
which include
Victorian writers, the among
was, tes have been filled by co-option. Greenwich
As until three years ago the Queen's House should be devoted however, a, difficult man to know. Cosgrave party were in power, to a national maritime museum. Though my friend often passed Professor Geoffrey Callender, the time of day on the stairs, and as the ranks of Flanna Fall have not produced a large pur-lecturer at the Royal Naval Colle- Sambel Butler never invited him ber of politicians suitable for ge Greenwich, has described the into his chambers. Second Chamber service," Mr. De Queen's House as "one of the Valera's party is not strongly re- most whimsical Inspirations that presented. Man
the freakish brain of James 1 ever formed.
Men, moreover, of the stamp of Sir John Keane, Bir Edward Bell- Ingham, Sir Thomas Grattan Esmond and Lord Powerscourt are hardly likely to view with favoury some of Mr. De Valera's wilder schemes.
BROWNING AND BYRON MSS.
Inigo Jones was commissioned
The aged laundress," who figures in the recently published Note Banks, looked after his wants.
i
"A gulet, elderly man-some-
by King James to build a house thing of a recluse," was how he straddling Woolwich-road He appeared to his neighours, an arch It was to be a house "At for a queen."
NOT HABSBURG
A friend who read my note on
Ons side of the house was built in Greenwich Park and the other side in the Royal gardens, while the "Habsburg lip" tells me that
the Woolwich-road, which ran
the famous trait is not really
The sale of manuscripts and between, -WES spanned" by a Habsburg in origin, but was in- first editions in New York on Apr."bridge room”
herited by them from the Cape-
4 and 6 is remarkable. The col- The road: was subsequently tian kings of France. lection contains many MSS. of "osed, but its-route is plainly de English authors, including 12 fined by colonnades erected at a poems of Browning, Stevenson's autographed notes on "The Co- venanters, and. Byron's "Ode to Thomas Moore.”
ter date.
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wife of Francis France
Eleanor of Austria, the second
there is a charming portrait of the Royal couple at Hampton Court was keen interested in her family lip,
Accordingly, she had all the tombs of her Burgundian," ances tora at Dijon opened. Her ances tors, whether through the con- sumption of the good wine of Burgundy or for some other rea
Gen. ODuffy Mr. De Valera is From an American point of view the chief attractions are marching direct to a dictatorship. George Washington's copy of Mr. John Masefield The world "Robertson's. History of the Regin has a new sense of duty towards of the Emperor Charles V." a the citizens and it is going to collection of autograph letters of wards a new and easier concep US Presidents from Washington of work, Koteloggers son, were remarkably well preser
ved. And all had what is known as the Habsburg Up FREE Eleanor was the granddaughter
ton to Coolidge, and a series of Bir Kynaston Studd, at Mill Hill autograph letters and manus School-If you have not physical cripts of Mark Twain,
fitness you will never be mentally
sound. You may be brillant, of the Emperor Maxillan 1, whe but you will never be sound, had married Mary of Burgundyż
The Mark Twain: letters show to what pains he went to adver- tise his works, and his lectures.
Three of the letters were writ- ten in London in 1873, They con- tain minute instructions to his
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