Pomp & Circumstances

In his time, 60-year-old Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Sidney Clive has not lacked excitement. Bravely he served with Kitchener of Khartoum on the Nile, was decorated again during the Boer War, won the D. S. 0. during the World War, served as Military Governor of Cologne and as British Military Representative at the League of Nations. Last week in the comfortable security of his new London post as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, distinguished, elderly Sir George stepped into one of King George's state carriages to rehearse the procession for the Silver Jubilee Parade.

Top-booted footmen sprang up behind, the coachman cracked his whip, and out through Grosvenor Gate the coach rolled, to smack into collision with a lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal.

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