Foreign News: Jeeves to the Rescue

Sir Thomas Jeeves Horder, physician to James Ramsay MacDonald and Physician in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, hotly denied at his fashionable No. 141 Harley Street office last week what he called "reports that the Prime Minister is in poor health."

The reports have been that Scot Mac-Donald is suffering from "cerebral anemia" or brain fatigue. Even the cautious Times has discussed the subject guardedly. Recently at Oxford, extremely polite Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, lecturing on "The Machinery of Government," created a sensation by the following remarks which were understood to refer to Scot MacDonald, though Lord Cecil did not mention...

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