The Archive · 1938

Liars Club Membership Burlington

Mr. Douglas P. Corrigan won a life membership in the famed Burlington Liars Club today on the basis of his story that he really thought he was flying to Los Angeles when he made his intrepid trans-Atlantic fight Dublin.—United Press.

Roosevelt Field, July 18 Mr. Howard Hughes said today that Mr. Douglas Corrigan's flight was "very remarkable."—United Press Chicago, July 18.

Berlin, July 19

It is announced here that the chief of the protocol department of the Foreign Office, Herr Karl von Buelow-Schwante, has been appointed Minister to Belgium. Baron von Richthofen, who up to now held the Brussels post, will shortly be appointed to some other post in the diplomatic service.

Herr von Buelow-Schwante's successor as chief of the protocol department will be Baron von Doernberg.

The former deputy chief of the protocol department of the Foreign Office, Herr Boltze, will go to Tokyo as First Counsellor of the Embassy with the rank of Minister—Trans-

Ocean.

Mr. Douglas Corrigan will make a personal appearance tour of leading cities in the United States on behalf of American Airlines Th was not aware of Mr. Ci Atlantic intentions w contract with the Irish pilot Press British Delegation to League Assembly London, July 19.

The United Kingdom delegation to the next meeting of the League of Nations Assembly in September will consist of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax; the Lord Privy Seal, Earl de la Warr, and the Financial R.A.F. Manceuvres Secretary to the Treasury, Colonel D. J. Colville; with the following sub-

London, July 19.

The Air Ministry announced today that the annual Royal Air Force manœuvres, to take place between August 5 and 7, will be the most important held to date. Nine hund planes will take part in the exercises.—Havas. stitute delegates: the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A

Butler; the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Mr. B. H. Pernays; Miss Irene W M. P. for Wallsend and 5 Markin, Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office.

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