Foreign News: Representative of the Rat

Opening their Sunday Dispatch last week, Londoners saw pictures of Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell, and Mrs. Mavis Constance Tate, M. P., who cried out in the headline: "WHAT I WOULD HAVE SAID IF M. P.s HAD NOT SHOUTED ME DOWN."

In the House a few days earlier Mrs. Tate was silenced by repeated cries of "Order! Order!" when she attempted to make a scandal out of the fact that three British M. P.s recently arrived in North America. These are: the Duke of Windsor's onetime flying instructor, Captain Alexander Stratford Cunningham-Reid, who gets $50,000 a year for life from a former wife...

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