Foreign News: Rhodes's Man

Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth gathered in London last week for discussions trending toward a tighter Empire. Busiest of all was little, persistent Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins of Southern Rhodesia. He lunched with Winston Churchill, sat with the War Cabinet, shot the breeze with Canada's W. L. Mackenzie King, New Zealand's Peter Eraser, South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts. Inevitably, out of his pocket came Huggins' Plan No. 1, or Huggins' Plan No. 2, or both. He was a man with something to sell.

Plan No. 1. Sir Godfrey is a surgeon and still,...

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