Foreign News: Glory to William

While George V and Queen Mary were pondering Hamlet Stratford-on-Avon celebrated Shakespeare's birthday (rainy) with Othello. At high noon the flags of all nations were broken out in the public square by their diplomatic representatives—all except the Stars & Stripes.

Because Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes sent nobody to break out his flag this was done by Sir Archibald Flower, Board Chairman of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Tactful, he smoothed everything over by remarking that the U. S. has contributed more than any other nation to the Theatre Fund.

At a jocund luncheon afterward,...

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