PREMIER, London, May 6.
The Council of the Royal Academy thas written to Mr. Adrian Stokes duking him for having interrupted the speech which the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, delivered at the brilliant banquet given by the Academy on Thursday night.
The president of the Council hi sent Mr, MacDonald an apology on behalf of the Academy.
Mr, Stokes, who is 80 years of age, still "very glad that he was discourteous." While Mr. MacDonald was in the midst of the address, Mr. Stokes asked him why he was divelling on the achievements of the Government instead of speaking of the Royal Academy Exhibition opening on May 7.
Mr. Stokes, brother of the inventor of the Stokes Gun, was vice-president of the Academy last year—Reuter.
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