GREAT BRITAIN: Swan Lord's Woes

With sanctions and the League of Nations monopolizing British news last week, few of George V's subjects realized how fast their Government is rushing forward with its program of rearmed Might. Acutely vexed by this program is Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, Baron Ilchester and Strangways. His hobby is swans and the Government has decided to convert a great tract scarcely four miles from Ilchester's famed swannery at Abbotsbury into a nerve-racking "bombing range." It has also decided to turn much of his property in Dorset into one of...

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