Rather a pathetic note comes from the Zoo, which has been closed to the public since last Sunday with the result that the animals are bored to tears. Day by day they have waken up expectant of the usual kindly, Inquisitive crowds, and as none have nationality on marrying a foreigner, unless they definitely said that they wished to take his nationality, But the Government turned it down of the flimsy plea that it must wait until it got the agreement of the Domin-fons. which, by the way, it has never shown the faintest desire to get. Now the agitation is being revived, with prospects of success one hopes, Down to the year 1870, a girl's nationality was not affected by her marriage and. there is not the faintest reason why should' be.
In fact, reason is all the other way, for it would put a. stop to the un~ desirable practice of foreign women paying British men to marry them In order to become British, Tears In Tanganyika lose oneself in moral effects of war. for thousands of harmless folk, I have just been reading an account by a lady who has been touring in Tanganyika of several German homesteads which she visited, One particularly impressed her by its beauty; the owner had designed i himself and all the furniture had been made from native Mary CE happened to be opposit box) seemed to be frozen into a statue, Thad no idea that there could be such degrees in merely standing still Our Royals Cockney humour is really rather dlighttuk, When the Queen, ina ound of visits to hospitals and frt= post, was visiting the Middlesex, Ste Stopped at the bed et a. woman who hdl been run down in the street. "they told me Td been trying. 10 ieroek down a bus" said the patient, "and now I" find" you, here. Your Majesty, What a day!"
Of our other Royalties, the Duke of Kent, now a Rear-Admiral, returns the' Navy" instead of going. Australia, and the Duke of Gloucester 45 Chief Liaison Ameer British Field Force comes back into the Army which he never ought to. have lett useless in soci functions, but hae "the, makings. of a" first-class soldier and was very sorry to have give up soldiering. Feelings are tivlded. about the announced return of the Dike of Windsor. "The Fimes™
'Welcomes him, saying. that it would bey intolerable for him' to" remain bron at such a time, But some people think, though with no personal feeling, that having held. the position hee dig' and renounced it, ho" should take the consequences however biter, trid one of them is that he cannot be the some country with the. King. Als, they ase, what Is he going 10 do when he wets here?
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