THE CONGRESS: Potter's Pother

A bull cavorting in a china shop was nothing to the stir raised last week when a china merchant lumbered into a bull pen. The china merchant was big, bluff Colonel the Right Honorable Josiah Clement Wedgwood, great-great-great-grandson of the Josiah Wedgwood who founded Britain's famed pottery works. The bull pen was Congress.

Beetle-browed, 69-year-old Colonel Wedgwood is no fancy-pants. He fought for Britain in the Boer War, in World War I was wounded and won his D.S.O. Like the first Josiah, who got himself well hated for championing the cause of the upstart American colonies, Colonel "Josh" is a fighting...

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