Foreign News: Axed

“Please make it quite clear that I have not resigned from the Board of Governors of the British Broadcasting Corp.,” cried Ethel Snowden last week. “I have been retired. I have been ‘axed’ if you like, and I don’t know why!”

British gossips thought they knew why. Ethel Snowden, who was not only a Governor of the B. B. C. but is vice-chairman of Covent Garden Opera Syndicate as well, is of course the wife of bitter little Viscount Snowden who resigned from the National Cabinet and broke with his old friend Ramsay MacDonald rather than accept the Ottawa tariff agreements. Appointments to the B. B. C. board are made by King George on recommendations of the Prime Minister. Appointed to Lady Snowden’s place was Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, onetime Laborite M. P., who has published an extremely flattering biography of Ramsay MacDonald.