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Smith Frederick Edwin 1872-1930 Earl Birkenhead
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1925 – Rev. A.H. Sayce
GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/11 · Series · 1925
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Triennial Gold Medal

Two newspaper cuttings concerning the controversy around the use of Rudyard Kipling's "East is East and West is West" couplet by Lord Birkenhead at the presentation of the Triennial Gold Medal to Rev. A.H. Sayce. These are:

  • 'Kipling's Distich." Lord Birkenhead on East and West' from The Times of India, 1 June 1925.
  • 'Indian Affairs at Home. Reading-Birkenhead Discussions' from The Englishman, 5 June 1925.
 Sayce Archibald Henry 1845-1933 Assyriologist, linguist