Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Feeling of Security." In the course of further Rearmament debate in the House last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made unobtrusively perhaps the most important declaration from His Majesty's Government since the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933. A basic tenet of Nazi policy today is that, excluding Soviet Russia, the rest of Europe including Britain must unite in a Western Pact. This regional pact to guarantee peace only on Germany's frontiers in the West, leaving the Fatherland free to wage war in the East, has long been resisted by France with her doctrine...
...daily wangling the Communists & Socialists among his "Popular Front" supporters as best he could-that it woul be "disastrous" if a final Spanish White victory should be considered a victory for Italy and Germany without also being a victory for Britain, France and moderate Europeans generally. Stanley Baldwin knows that many of his best friends think he bumbled in not getting Britain in on the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and His Majesty's Government now have a similar "opportunity" in Spain-sine after all the Empire is an imperialist Democracy...
Because not even the Baldwin Cabinet's best friends could believe that healthy Queen Elizabeth would not be able to come smiling through a dozen Coronations and Durbars if required, correspondents were obliged to question the India Office closely. What about Sir Alexander Hardinge, the King's Private Secretary, only recently dispatched to India to perfect arrangements for the Durbar? What about the King's own uncertain health? What about Mahatma Gandhi's teeming Indian National Congress, its denunciation of the new Constitution now being given by Britain to her Indian Empire (TIME...
...worth a gamble to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government, which considers that if it can show definite tangible gains for Britain in lessened risk of war, in lessened taxes for keeping up the arms race, in getting Germany into a Western air pact and in inducing her to abandon her own ruinous war economy, the British voters would not turn it out of office...
...Duke of Windsor's only sister Princess Mary, the Princess Royal of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, arrived in Austria with her husband the Earl of Harewood last week, first member of the British Royal Family to visit Edward VIII since his abdication. The Baldwin Cabinet, as London newspapers printed last week, intervened recently to prevent the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent from going to Vienna. On the platform was Edward, as the Princess Royal's train rolled in. Her favorite brother ever since they both had to pose in bothersome robes and coronets as budding regalites...