Foreign News: Rejected Thought

Towering, silver-haired, pink-faced Sir William Davison, 69, is a peppery, ultra-conservative M.P. who looks like an Esquire illustration of elderly, tweedy correctness. He is also a great believer in the power of thought. "I am no crank," says he, "but if people all over the world wished and willed the same thing at the same time there would be a great deal in it."

Last week Sir William tried to have his belief made an official part of British war policy. Rising handsomely in the House of Commons he urged that British citizens throughout the world "unite every night at...

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