At Oxford was held the annual Rhodes dinner. Premier Stanley Baldwin and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, feasted among the assembled 300 scholars. It was the first time that a Prime Minister had ever attended the function.
Said the Premier to the other diners: "We are seeing the ancient civilization of Europe cracking today. The whole world is looking for salvation to the British Empire and the United States. . . . We shall, each pursuing our own special development, be united whenever peace and justice call."
J. M. Clarke of...
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