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Show r -" . -- i- - 0 . i s , H , ! K "" iMiinii nn fiMTiiHnniii)ailiflnitM ROBERT BENTHAM STEVENS British Consul British Consul and Wife To Speak Here Robert Bentham Stevens, British Consul, Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Stevens will address a public meeting to be held in the South ward chapel on Tuesday night, June 22nd at 8:45. Mr. Stevens will explain the basis of civilian war-time economy while Mrs. Stevens will talk about the civilian's civil-ian's life in war-time. These speakers are coming here through the courtesy of the Extension Ex-tension Division of the University of Utah and are being sponsored locally by the Rotary club, St. George Chamber of Commerce and Business and Professional Women's club. They are rated highly as public speakers by those who have heard them and the local sponsors spon-sors feel that they are being given (Continued on page eigllt) British Consul (Continued from first page) the opportunity of presenting outstanding out-standing entertainment. Mr. Stevens was born in. Sussex, England, 1906: He was brought up on a farm- where Piltdown Skull (a sub-man who lived! over 300,000 years ago) was discovered in 1912. He was graduated' at Oxford Ox-ford and joined' the Consular Service in 192K As Consulate he has served at Buenos Aires from 1928 to: 1931; at New York: from 1931 to 1936; Antwerp, Belgium from- 1936 to 1938; Valencia. Spain, 1938; London, Lon-don, March 1939 to September 1942; in the Foreign office news department and the Ministry of Information:. He arrived" at Denver Den-ver on September 26, 1942, where he opened his office at Room 516 First National Bank building on November-1, 1942. |