P. M. to A. G.

P.M.toA.G.

The sort of little story Russians are always telling about Stalin, Germans about Hitler and Turks about Kamal Ataturk--a story which might be true and strikes the tellers as supremely characteristic--was being murmured over London teacups last week about God-fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Englishmen make a great thing of initials in their speech and the "P. M." (Prime Minister) was said to have been going over with the Cabinet the speech he subsequently made in the House of Commons upon the accession of King Edward VIII. Afterward Mr. Baldwin's secretary gathered up the manuscript and observed a marginal note by the Prime Minister, ''Refer again to A. G."

Promptly the speech was rushed to the Attorney General. The hour was late and in some puzzlement the A. G. and his staff scrutinized its wholly innocuous phrases, wondering what the P. M. could possibly have thought might be indiscreet or dangerous. This labor having been completed, it turned out next morning that God-fearing Orator Baldwin had meant to remind himself by his marginal note to: "Refer again to Almighty God."

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