Foreign News: Top Dog

Members of Britain's nether classes often refer collectively to those above as "Them." Enviously they know that a man child born to "Them" can take the soft path that leads through Oxford or Cambridge and then on to Place & Power. Such a scion of "Them" is David George Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley, 23, who ran through Cambridge as a track star, and was appointed last week a Justice of the Peace at Peterborough.

"What qualifications!" roared Labor hecklers in the House of Commons, "What qualifications has this athlete which justified his appointment...

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