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Surprise For The House Of Lords: Literary Chastisement: What Is Sauce For One: Warm Welcome For Sir John: A Proper Kitchen: Two Gifts From America

(Special Ale Mail Service)

London, May 1. The latest mot coined in diplo- matle circles is the christening of Col. Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, "Bec et Ongles" (Beak and Claws).

agreed to

ford Union may soon have what it has long lacked. a proper kitchen and dining-room.

The formal presentation will be inade by Mr. R. W. Bingham, and the speeches will be broadcast in Americs,

country.

though bot in this

Chatham House has been the home of three Prime Ministers. The elder Pitt lived there. Lord Derby, who was three times Prime Minister, occupied it for nearly twenty years in the middle of last century. Gladstone lived there during the session of 1890.

An L.C.C. tablet on what is now' the headquarters of the RILA bears an inscription beginning: Here Hved three Prime Ministers. WHEN RUBBER WAS 4/- A LB,

In a City office there bangs a chart that will have a fresh inter- The Cambridge. Union has had a dining-room since the Victorian est in view of the completion of the rubber agreement. It was pre- eras fact which has made it much more of a club than its Ox-pared. by an enthusiatic member ford counterpart, and which ac of the firm's staff in the days

when rubber had soared counts for its much larger" mem-

́four`shillings -a" pound. ̧

The origin of the nickname is the trenchant attitude adopted by the still youthful soldier-state- sman on several recent occasions,bership.

For instance, France last spring The Oxford Union has been pre-

discuss with Britain vented from acquiring a dining Italy and Germany Signor Mag-room partly for financial reasons solini's Four-Power Pact, without and partly owing to inability to secure neighbouring property' for seeking the approval or the ac

expansion. quiescence of her ally.

The assets of the Union are mainly the bulldings--Insured for about £60,000 and are rested in Normally there the trustees:

the mo- should be four, but at

are only three, the ment there President of Magdalen, Professor Holdsworth, and Professor Gilbert

Col. Beck retaliated last autumn by entering on the negotiations with Germany, for a pact of mutual non-aggression without consulting

France...

Again, when Col. Beck visited Paris not so long ago, the then French Foreign Minister. M. Paul

Bontour, was not present to rece- ive him at the station.

Murray.

At the end of the war the Union

above

The graph showed exactly what' would be the profits of the firm at cach stage as the price of rubber fell Unfortunately, it stopped short, at eighteenpence a pound which seemed to its author the ut- most, limit of possible decline.

In days when rubber had fallen to twopence a pound the head of the firm insisted on keeping the chart on the wall as, a warning of

under the present restriction the vanity of human hopes. Even scheme it seems unlikely that the chart will ever recover more than an historical interest.

HEADMASTER MR. NEWMAN Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell undeter- at a big loss Moreover, the Wred by the un-Mozartian storm buildings completed just before which his book on Kosart aroused, the war had not been paid for en- tirely. A

So when M. Paul-Boncour's suc- found itself £10,000, in debt. This cessor. M. Barthou, alighted from was due to the fact that during the train at Warsaw last week the war years the society was run there was no Polish Foreign Minis ter on the platform to greet him, Evidently in Polish opinion what is sauce for the Gallic Cock is also sauce for the Polish White Eagle.

SIR JOHN SİMON'S REVENGE When Sir John Simon arrives at the Foreign once this morning he will be given an unusually warm welcome. The staff of that august department feel that he has struck a shrewed blow in their defence.

Normally the society's Income from subscriptions is about £5,000, This substantially exceeds, expen- diture, so that the debt was soon all but wiped off.

Four years ago the opportunity occurred of acquiring the premises of a neighbouring wine merchant and some other property.

Unfortunately the Union's new For long past Mr. Mander, the acquisition wal have to be com- Liberal member for Wolverhamp-pletely rebuilt. According to the Lon. s been a thorn in the side present estlinates this will cost of the Foreign Office. He has about £7,000 £8,000. piled the Foreign Secretary with Inconvenient questions" in Parlis- ment and has been a consistent critic of Sir John in foreign affairs debates

But on Saturday Sir John had his wholly satisfying revenge. He

went out with Mr. Mander as his Arst-round opponent in the Par- Bamentary golf handicap and brusquely dismissed him from the competition.

Incidentally, if the Foreign Se- cretary maintains his present

Under

the

has now published a study of latest book has been Liszt, His well received so far by the revle- wers. .

My pleasure in his Mozart was not lessened by the subsequent controversy which Mr. Sacheverel Sitwell, doughtily supported by engaged in Mr. Osbert Sitwell. with Mr. Ernest Newman in the

Sunday Times."

I

If M Newman, as Mr. Bacheve rell Sitwell then suggested, was the headmaster, he certainly i ficted literary chastisement. shall be interested to see whether another conflict will take place in the headmaster's study.

circumstances the trustees will, wait till the October team before-com- ing to a final decision to start DUKE OF ATHOLL'S EFIGRAM building. If the number of new members la then satisfactory, the dining-room-which will seat 75, 28 against the Cambridge Union's 30 could be completed in eight

months.

HOME OF THREE PREMIERS

At Chatham House this even

form he should take a lot of stop-ing Mr. MacDonald will accept, on behalf of the Royal Institute of

The Duke of Atholl surprised the House of Lords during the debate on the Hetting B as much by the epigrammatic spice with which he flavoured his speech as by the allegations which it contained.

Although he speaks on a variety of subjects, from stage censorship to Jacobitism, he does not usually indulge in sich flights of oratori-

ping. Playing of a handicap of international Affairs, two gifts cal fancy as his, “My Lords, the

14, he has become a formidable proposition on the golf course. It from America. is not many years since he was a complete novice.

OXFORD UNION EXPANSION If the trustees approve of the ŝinancial arrangements. the Ox-

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The Duke spoke frequently in the House of Commons before the war, when, as Lord Tullibardine, | he represented West Perthshire.

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