Foreign News: Rule Britannia

Empire Day. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's father in law is Mayor Richard Annakin of Harrogate, famed "British spa.'' Both men are rugged pacifists. Last week Mayor Annakin cowed his City Council with an ultimatum. If they counted on him to take part in Harrogate's celebration of Empire Day (May 24), he said, they must strike the singing of ''Rule Britannia" off the program.

Empress of Britain. Seated on a workman's hoist at a Glasgow shipyard last week, H. R. H. Princess Mary rose vertically 100 feet in air, was swung onto the...

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