GREAT BRITAIN: The King and the Sea

This month that saltiest monarch, beloved King George, who swears unprintable quarter-deck oaths exclusively, has been working up through the Royal Air Force and the Army to the final and greatest pageant of his Silver Jubilee year, the naval review last week at Spithead, off Portsmouth. "Fly Past/— Three brand new Baby Rolls-Royces were at His Majesty's disposal when he went down to Mildenhall, Suffolk, to view some $5,000,000 worth of fighting aircraft which had nearly burned up in a huge grass fire night before. Stepping into an apple-green Baby Rolls,...

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