GREAT BRITAIN: Useless Eustace

Politely last week the Rt. Hon. Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy resigned from the British Cabinet. Reason: He had nothing to do. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin regretfully accepted the resignation. The bluest of blood and the highest of brows has Lord Eustace Percy. The seventh son of the seventh Duke of Northumberland, he is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror's chieftain, William ("als Gernons"*) de Percy. A brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, he has served in the Ministry of Health and the Foreign Office, was President of the Board of Education from...

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