Foreign News: High & Mighty

Nancy Lady Astor turned her tart Virginia tongue last week upon Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley, gilded son of the Queen's Bedchamber Woman, who fortnight ago confessed to the House of Commons the failure of the National Government's attempt to reform Britain's wasteful "Dole" (TIME, Feb. 18). Said the Noble Lady: "Government should have stood by their unemployment scheme and corrected its defects without so much everlasting apologizing to the Labor Opposition! It was all right for the Labor Minister to make his statement in this House, but it was not necessary for...

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