... favour of the Allies by Easter. The conflict between Japan and China will end in a month in a magnanimous peace.” The prophet speaking is Viscount Hisaakira Kano, London manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank and vice-chairman of the Council of the Bank for ...

... BRITISH NATIONAL LIFE “NEGATIVE AND EMPTY” —Bishop of London T , HE Bishop of London, Dr. A G. F Fisher, speaking at a New Year service in London to-day, said that British national life and ideals, so far as they were positive, were still Christian, but ...

... dated yesterday, Lord Gort has published extracts from a letter received from the Prime Minister, in which Mr. Chamberlain speaks of his recent visit to the B.E.F. and says: I was particularly impressed by the great progress made in short a time and despite ...

... Chamberlain It was with real pleasure that I accepted the invitation to talk to you to-day. I am happy to think that l am speaking not to strangers, but to friends, for 1 can claim a long acquaintance with your country 1 recall with particular pleasure ...

... note of menace. Taking the cue perhaps from Goering’s week-end threat in the Voelkischer Beobachter that Hitler has only to speak the words for a destructive load of bombs” to be carried over Britain, all the New Year messages emphasise that a decision ...

... brought up in Manchester, where his parents still live. He has been in Canada for 12 years, ten of those in the Army. Mr. Eden, speaking into microphone coyly hidden under a miniature Union Jack, gave them a welcome. The new world has come to challenge tyranny ...

... GREAT BLOW Speaking from her bedroom to a reporter to-day, Madame de Navarro said, in referring to the death of her friend, Sir Frank Benson; 41 He was a delightful person and a very old friend of mine. Sir Frank’s plays at Stratford-on-Avon were always ...

... POILDS An association of French-Canadian women has been formed at Quebec to give moral and material aid “to poilus and French-speaking soldiers abroad ” who are without families or personal resources. The Society will recruit members to make up parcels of ...

... n. This is the position of public and preparatory day schools that made their own arrangements in September. One can only speak from knowledge of some seven or eight schools in part of London, and of those only two arc carrying on in the country for next ...

... off the stage always remained a gentleman and scholar with little trace of the actor, although he was always happiest when speaking with amiable detachment of Shakespeare and the stage. Sir Frank was not without honour in his day and generation. In 1910 ...

... British Empire. Here again we have seen not only a repetition but, as it were, an intensification of history. General Smuts speaks as Prime Minister of a South Africa united beyond Nazi imagination. It is a real Union, to which the outbreak of war means ...

... French friends, —It was with real pleasure that I accepted the invitation to talk to you to-day. lam happy to think that lam speaking not to strangers, but to friends, for I can claim long acquaintance with your country. I was only nine years old when I paid ...