... and French soldiers and airmen is due in large measure to the big increase in the number of Britons and Frenchmen who can speak each other’s language. The tactfulness of British officers and exemplary conduct of the men under them have also contributed ...

... triumph. As a member of the House of Commons he has already shown exceptional ability, and has been honoured by being asked to speak the Address to the King. He is a busy man nowadays, commercially and politically, but he still keeps fit by exercise. His ...

... and French soldiers and airmen is due in large measure to the big increase in the number of Britons and Frenchmen who can speak each other’s language. A French officer said that in this respect the improvement over 1914 is most marked. The tactfulness ...

... savings system.” See Page 3. PREMIER’S GUILDHALL SPEECH ROOSEVELT’S SURVEY LIKELY TO BE MENTIONED 'J'HE Prime Minister, when he speaks at the Guildhall, London, next Tuesday, will probably refer to President Roosevelt’s survey of the war with its reference ...

... required before France would lay down her arms. According to reports, a section of the French Press has gone so far as to speak of Germany being brought to her knees.” Our own Government’s statements on war aims have so far been vague and unilluminating ...

... sit to Birmingham. Simonstown, the British naval base, is the centre of intense naval activity, and the defence authorities speak glowingly of the work done by the Royal Navy to keep the Union safe from aggression. Berlin Denies Bohemia Riots Years of Painful ...

... him not only of his home, b fcllar. Jr Was speaking at the cona nce of the Incorporated t} a tion of Headmasters on Cq difficulties caused by the of some schools ci, , ludin g own) for the use of u servants. speak” he said, as a homeless er over the face ...

... one of the five special trains. London Mansion House on January 9. Then we shall have Mr. Winston Churchill speaking from Manchester’s Free Trade Hall, Lord Halifax addressing a big assembly in Leeds, and Sir John Simon orating to the burgesses of Glasgow ...

... German-speaking inhabitants of the Upper Adige (Italian Tyrol) have chosen to return to the Reich, according to an official communique from Bolzano to-day, quoted by the official German News Agency.— Reuter. There were 250.000 German-speaking inhabitants ...

... BRITAIN AND JAPAN “TRADITIONAL FRIENDSHIP WILL BE PRESERVED The Japanese Ambassador (M. Shigemitsu), speaking in London to-day, said; The traditional friendship between our two countries is not skin-deep, but soul-deep, and it will, 1 am sure, be preserved ...

... thanked the Lord Mayor for his presence. It was a good thing, he said, that the head of a great city like Birmingham should speak to his fellow-citizens such words as the Lord Mayor had addressed to them, showing them what they were liable to forget—that ...

... are federated in an international union, while States are isolated in their individual sovereignties. M. G. M.” goes on to speak of the “power of finance in the slump of 1930-33.” Surely it was lack of power! Prior to the war of 1914-18, Britain maintained ...