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...Never Say Die!" In addition to thus ramming the perfidy of Albion down Albion's throat amid well-bred cries of "Hear! Hear!", the astonishing 45-minute address of Sir Samuel branched into a legal demonstration that the broad principles of The Deal, whatever its defects in detail, are identically the same broad principles enunciated by the League of Nations' Committee of Five...
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...Paris this was interpreted as British reluctance to take sides for or against Nazidom-even after the "clarifying talks" of Hitler with Sir John and Captain Eden. It was. Frenchmen angrily declared, just one more case of perfidious Albion's persistence in trying to maintain in Europe a "balance of power'' with herself as the fulcrum...
That Sir John of all Britons should handshake Herr Hitler was what most infuriated Frenchmen. They are resigned to "perfidious Albion" in the traditional role of Justice, upholding Europe's balance of power-with the British Lion couchant on the fulcrum. But even by his closest friends Sir John has long been considered a sincere friend of France, sincerely appalled by Nazidom. In London, as well as in Paris last week, an unflattering impression prevailed that Sir John saw his mission to Berlin in a light so dazzling that out of it he might emerge with the Order...
Duped like millions of his subjects was George V who listened in when not broadcasting. To Australia's fresh exposure of perfidious Albion, His Majesty was said by courtiers to have reacted with the saltiest of his salty oaths...