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...Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers on the record-breaker Normandie last year received medals free before landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: R.M.S. King George | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Peace without Punishment. In signing the Locarno Pact (TIME, Dec 14, 1925), Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium agreed that a formal decision by the League of Nations that it had been violated should "automatically" bring punitive measures against the treaty-breaker and free the injured parties to make appropriate use of their armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ja! | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Unfortunately France will have "to give Hitler's pacifistic proposals the benefit of the doubt," because the desertion of her cause by Britain has rendered any other course of action suicidal. A world which can still put faith in the pious words of Europe's champion treaty-breaker will give Germany the twenty-five year breathing-spell she needs so urgently, while M. Francon's question-how does the presence of 90,000 troops in the Rhineland serve the cause of peace-goes unanswered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TODAY'S MAIL | 3/26/1936 | See Source »

...Angrily debated a motion recommending that the Covenant of the League of Nations be so revised that Sanctions can never again be applied nor breach of a frontier be cited by the League as grounds for punishing the treaty-breaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...obvious to every European was the effect Herr Hitler's intimidation was having upon Britain-what with Foreign Secretary Eden urging not punishment of Germany but consideration of the treaty-breaker's terms -that Mr. Baldwin instinctively asserted the contrary, whistling to keep up Britain's courage. "Neither His Majesty's Government nor this people would ever be intimidated by threats," he boomed. "As a nation we could go on longer than others and, if driven to it [war] we should not hesitate!" After these words of fire, the Prime Minister, conscious that it will take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: White Paper | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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