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Mr. Churchill Trapped: Miss Evelyn Cheesman: "Reserved" Gray's Inn: King Of Siam At Eton: Witly And Brief: "Comus" At Open Air Theatre: No New Departure: "Sir Henry:" Character And

Tradition

From Our Own Correspondent)

of women to men in roughly the same as it has averaged over the a past few years-namely, about

London, June 20. The full-dress nature of yester- day's Privilege Debate in the House of Commons was illustrated | one in twenty. by the Ascot waistcoats of Mr. Baldwin and the Chief Whip.

Hardly a seat was vacant in any part of the House except in the M.Ps' gallery on the right of the Chair. Practically the whole Ministry was squeezed on to the Government Front Benth.

Mr. Churchill, speaking from the corner of the Front Bench below the gangway, was only a yard from the Ministers he was attack- 1 ing, Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell, fits nearest Ministerial neighbour, could be seen muttering afterce com-

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NEW BELGIÀN FOREIGN

MINISTER 4

M. Henri Jaspar, the new Bel- gian Foreign Minister, is a fami- liar Agure here. An honorary KC.MD. he rather enjoys, when In England, being addressed na

"TEA IN HIS OLD ROOM, The King and Queen of Siam visited Eton College to-day, where they were the guests of the Head-Sir Henry." master and Mrs. Elliott, They in- spected the Italian gardens when was the King's gift to on to commemorate the time (1908-10) he spent at the school as Prince Prajadhipok.

He has decided` views, and has proved himself a strong negotia

tor in international questions. At the Peace Conference, and even more at the Dawes and Young Conferences-over the latter of

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The lunchean party includea. The Vice-Provost (Mr. G. H. Kwhich he presided he played.

notable part. Marten), the Lower Master (MY, A.

Being himself a man who be- E. Conybeare), Mr. J. Marlieves in expressing his opinion (the King's former House Master) clearly and vigorously, he has a great admiration-fully reciprocat- de for Mr. Lloyd 'George and Lord Snowden.

Mrs. Hare. Hon. George Lättälten As Sir John Simon and Sir (the King's farmer' Tutor); and Thomas Inskip, flanking the Prime Miss Coward (his Dame - Minister and Sir Samuel Hoare, After luncheon, during a tour of busily took notes of Mr. Churchill's the school, the Captain of the accusations: one was forcibly re-School (M. P.M: Ollard, K. and minded öz a^^scene in the Law the Captain of Courts. Both eminent

counsel C. Tripp) were added de

has a ane shock of white hair.

Like Mr. Lloyd George, M. Jaspar

It is an extraordinary tribute to the tenacl.y of the Celtic tradition that Lady Londonderry should feel so much a Celt as to speak of

the "our race," and point sout fact too little realised, especially in England, how much we have in- herited "from Our Celtic ances-

CELTIC LADY LONDONDERRY

I was interested in the fresh were obviously in their element King and Queen They saw first evidence Lady Londonderry's little Mr. Churchill got his best laugh afternoon Absence tailed, and book, Character and Tradition. when," assuring the House that he later watched on Agar's Plough which has just appeared, presents was not impugning the honour of the cricket match between the of the intense attraction the Celtic Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Derby, School and the Household Brigade. spirit has for her. be said: "I will vouch for them." Before leaving, the King vinted But he was easily eclipsed when his old house in Common-lane, he allpped into the trap set a little Here, with the Queen, he had tea later by Mr. Amery, who asserted | in his old room in company with that Mr. Churchill was always | the present occupant. They were faithful to his motto, "Fiat justi- | waited on by three faga. tia, ruat coelum" (Let justice be MANAGED WITHOUT THE MIKE done though the heavens fall). Last night's Canada Club dinner

Mr. Amery was doubtless pre- to Mr. Jackson Dodds, president of ❘tors." pared with his vernacular transfa- | the Canadian Bankers' Association, On the paternal side she Es tion,If I can trip up Sam 'the introduced a new public speaker. wholly English, of good Lincoln-, Government's bust." But he can

This was

Commander Stephen 1shire family. Indeed, her father, hardly have hoped that it would | King-Hall. Although be is well the late Lord Chaplin, looked and be Mr. Churchill himself who known as a writer and broadcaster was a typical "John Bull. would ask for it.

on almost every conceivable sub- Incidentally, the Marlborougn lect, this was his Arst public motto is "Fiel pero desdichado, the Spanish for “Faithful but un- fortunate."

ENGLISHWOMAN IN PAPUA Miss Evelyn Cheesman, formerly curator of Insects at the London Zoc. has returned from an eigh- Leen, months' trip entirely alone, except for the natives, in the primeval forests and mountains of Papua. She has brought a collec- tion of 42,000 insects for the Natural History Museum South Kensington, and she expects that at least two-thirds of the speci- mens she has collected will be ex- tirely new.

speech.

He had a written manuscript in his hand, but his delivery was '80 good that there was no impression of a read speech.

The material, too, was witty and commendably brief.

The Sutherland fainly, to which her mother belonged... had long ceased to marry 'burely. Highland brides. although her grandfather, the third Duke of Sutherland, married a Mackenzie of Cromartie, YEMENI MINISTER FOR LONDON?

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It is probable, I hear, that the His most amusing effort was his Imam of Yemen, who some time vocation of Holy writ in connec-ago entered into treaty relations tion with the American war debt. with Great Britain, may appoint a He recommended to the Americans representative in London. present a perusal of the first two verses of the fifteenth chapter of Deuteronomy. "

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His recent adversary, King Ibo Saud, has liad a Minister here for some, years,

The verses run as follows:

The Imam's choice is limited At the end of every seven years or all his advisers in Sanaa only thou shalt make a release. And

one, Turk, speaks French. Not "Most of my work," Miss Chees- this is the manner of the release.

one knows. English. man told a reporter "was done at Every "creditor that lendeth ought an altitude of 9,000 feet up in the unto his neighbour shall release it, mountainous interior. It rained he shall not exact it of his neigh- perpetually and most of the time] bour or of his brother,

I was up to my knees in mud" Unfortunately, King-Hall sald: She found moths, often measuring Congress seemed to be concentrat ten inches across the wings and of [ing its attention on verse three: extraordinary beauty: stick insects Of a foreigner thou mayst exact ten inches long with sharp spikes it again." which could cause a very painful MASTER OF THE GREENSWARD wound, and a little orchid which caught flies.

NEW BARRISTERS: FOUE

WOMEN INCLUDED Gray's Inn was the only one of the four Inns of Court at which

I understand, that the Imam may appoint an Englishman.

If a well-known. Orientalist be- comes Yemeni Minister he will

presumably attend Court functions in full Arab dress.

Such an appointment would be no new departure in diplomacy, more particularly Eastern diplo- macy.

Sir Philip Ben Greet fills with Until a few years ago"the Coun- distinction the picturesquely nam-sellorships of both the Chinese ed office of Master of the Greens and the Siamese Legations in ward at the Regent's Park Open-London

were bela by British Air Theatre.

nationals. One of them, the late He is venerable, suave, and a-Sir Halliday Macartney: was 窳 there were no women among the formative. I thought his intro- \ maker of history. new barristers called to the Bar ductory remarks on the pródue-

tion of "Comus" admirably cal-he became Counsellor and Charge After long residence in China last evening.

Four women were being called.culated to stir the interest of the d'Anaires of the Chinese Legation

audience.

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They were Miss Dorothy Knight

in Paris. He was there at the Dix and Miss Kathleen May ́In-

I did not, however, follow his time of the Franco-Chinese War gold, both students of the Inner Statement that "Comus" was Mil-over Tonking Temple; Miss "Alice Raven, of Linton's only play. "Samson Ago Subsequently transferred to Lon- coln's Inn, and Miss Mary Caronistes," though ignored, can hard-don, with the rank of a Chinese tine Davies, of the Middle Temple. ly be altogether forgotten,

Minister Plenipotentiary, he was Indeed, it better fits the descrip involved in two sharp conflicts Mias Davies is the eldest daughter of Mr. Daniel James Davies, chair- tion. "Comus" is not really

with the British Foreign Office, man of the Newfoundland Fishery play. but a masque-a very dinerone over, the Chinese Slavery." Board, who was till fast year Act-

ent thing.

controversy, the other over the ing High Commissioner in Low- By the way, the greensward over kidnapping by the Legation of the don for. Newfoundland.

which Sir Philip presides is rapid- late Dr. Sun Yat Sen Altogether 114 students too ly becoming a misnomer. TheOn both occasions, when defend- their call-Middle Temple 30, In- stage now resembles the Trent ing Peking's case at the Foreign ner Temple 30, Gray's Inn 24, and Bridge wicket on the last day of Omce, Bir Halliday referred to Wa Lincoln's Inn 21. The proportion the Test.

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