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...recent attack on Mr. Baldwin's "thinking machine" by Elder Conservative Statesman & Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 24) was last week answered by Squire Baldwin with a blunt refusal to part with one iota of his prerogatives. But the Prime Minister did say he would appoint a Deputy to act for him the greater part of trie time as Chairman of the Council of Imperial Defense which will largely spend the Armament billions. Who this Deputy will be, Mr. Baldwin did not yet choose to tell the House...
...measured accents before a hushed House of Commons last week, Sir Austen charged that the Cabinet's "thinking machine" does not seem to be working properly, and that in consequence the safety of the United Kingdom has been endangered. Since Mr. Baldwin, as Prime Minister, is also President of the Council of Imperial Defense, it was no bunch of roses which Sir Austen threw when he said: "Very reluctantly I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible in the present circumstances for the Prime Minister to be the effective head of the Imperial Defense Committee...
...more dignified style, Sir Austen proceeded to examine at great length the public statement by Mr. Baldwin on Nov. 13, 1934 that Britain's air force was 50% superior to Germany's, and his avowal on May 22, 1935 that he was "completely wrong," the air might of Germany having in fact very possibly equaled or eclipsed that of Britain...
With even greater care, Sir Austen went on to scrutinize the Prime Minister's conduct, remarks and policy respecting the Ethiopian Question (TIME, Dec. 30). Of portly, pipe-sucking Mr. Stanley Baldwin's confused statements in the House of Commons on that occasion, austere, hawk-featured Sir Austen Chamberlain concluded at crushing length: "I recall no comparable pronouncement by the head of the Government on a fundamental issue of defense in the 40 years of my parliamentary experience. Is it to be wondered at that some of us who are not alarmists, some...
Ostensibly Sir Austen had been speaking on the bill of Rear Admiral Sir Murray Sueter to replace the "squirrels" of the Imperial Defense Committee with a Ministry of Defense to coordinate Navy, Air Force and Army under a single Minister distinct from the Prime Minister. A parliamentary stickler, Sir Austen argued against this private bill which thereupon was withdrawn; argued for a similar reform by the Government, thus associating himself with His Majesty's Government in debate. Yet in so doing Sir Austen delivered the maximum blow to "Bumbler Baldwin." After Sir Austen resumed his seat, the House...