In mellow Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's mild but able National Government the Minister of Health is that crustiest of rock-ribbed Conservatives, high-hatted, icy-monocled Sir E. (for Ed- ward) Hilton Young. Even the flint-hard Admiralty has been dented by Sir E. They tried to retire him as unfit for active service after he lost his right arm with conspicuous bravery at Zeebrugge Mole. "On my way here through Trafalgar Square," he observed, fixing the Board of Admiralty with the eye of a basilisk, "I passed the statue of a man who had also lost...
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