Foreign News: Brutal Facts''

As it must to all wives, a measure of disillusionment came, last week, to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the British Prime Minister. Her husband's rise to head the State may well have seemed to her, pious, devoted, the visible workings of the Higher Power. Tenderhearted, she learned, last week, that some 62 miners had been entombed during the night at Cwm† Wales, by a mine explosion. Soon Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin were speeding to Cwm by motor. If the State could further the entrapped miners' rescue in any way, the presence of...

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