* * * * The attempt, fortunately unsuccessful, of a
Lagos native to assassinate Mr. Hugh Mackintosh Foot, the Chief Secretary of Nigeria, brings the whole family into the glare of that fierce light which beats upon a Foot. Mr. H. M. Foot went, unlike his brothers, to Cambridge, where he was, needless to say, President of the Union. As for the said brothers, one of them may by Friday find himself M.P. for North Cornwall, one may be M.P. for South-east Cornwall, one may, be (again) M.P. for Devonport. Or none of these things may happen. However that may be, Isaac Foot, who is responsible for the existence of the other four, will be well in the picture on Sunday, when he is broadcasting after the nine o'clock news about his native Plymouth. Not quite a sesquipedalian achievement, but quinquepedalian indisputably.
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