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Whether or not Britain's Prime Minister can accurately be called "Bumbler Baldwin" has been a grave Empire question to which Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., last week gravely addressed himself in the House of Commons...
...Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, is the No. I member of the ruling British Conservative Party. No. 2 member is the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and younger half-brother of Sir Austen, who today figures as perhaps the Empire's leading "elder statesman...
Author E. M. Delafield (Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood), a nice mixture of Jane Austen, Punch and her own "provincial lady," writes with malice aforethought but manages to leave a pleasantly salty aftertaste. Seldom frighteningly clever, she preaches entertaining sermonettes that make her listeners laugh out of both sides of the mouth, go chuckling home to Sunday dinner...
...charges of birdshot into students screeching "Down with England!" At the close of his holiday, Mr. Eden set about officially "becoming acquainted'' with the personnel of the British Foreign Office in which he has labored since 1926, when he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. All its civil servants who were of sufficient rank to be presented he greeted affably. These were moments to be savored, treasured. Thirty years hence volumes of memoirs will be adorned with versions of what "Tony" said last week if he proves to be a great British Foreign Secretary...
Britannia: "Help!" In the weary hours of debate preceding midnight teary Sir Austen's tearless half-brother Neville Chamberlain, the hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer, went a long way toward announcing what policy in the Ethiopian crisis is now to be followed by Britain. "If the League of Nations should decide that oil sanctions should be applied." said Mr. Chamberlain, "and that they can be effective-and should we be satisfied that all members of the League are not only ready to give us assurances but are also prepared to take their part in meeting...