Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's Churchill; The Allies' Newall; Britain's Elizabeth; Rumania's Carol; and The Netherlands' Wilhelmina: I can but tremble for them, after their appearance on TIME'S front...
...Said Britain's lion-maned, pernickety old David Lloyd George: "Perhaps after all Chamberlain was responsible for the Munich bomb outrage; the explosion was 15 minutes late...
...have France and Britain begun buying bedroom suites for the Maginot Line. The something which has happened to the furniture industry is not war. The something is that 1939 began with subnormal inventories and an incipient home building boom. Last spring, with builders turning out nearly twice as many new homes as in 1938, furniture makers prepared for a rise. This fall, in spite of World War II, it blew...
...reach of Hitler's bombers. The Ministry's eye fixed on Canada. The week before Chamberlain and Daladier signed away the life of Czecho-Slovakia, the Dominion got a new company: Canadian Associated Aircraft, Ltd. It was formed with Government blessing to coordinate aircraft orders from Britain. All its stock is held by six Canadian aircraft makers. The six: Canadian Car & Foundry Co., Fairchild Aircraft, National Steel Car Corp., Canadian Vickers, Fleet Aircraft, Ottawa Car & Aircraft...
...bitterly outspoken against censorship were Britain's publishers in the first weeks of the war that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to separate censorship from the Ministry of Information, reorganize both. But the French press, except for sly references to Anastasie, is not even allowed to point out the censor's errors. Parisians are still chuckling over a critical essay: titled "Censure et Propa-gande" that appeared lately in L'Europe Nouvelle. The whole article was a blank, and bore the legend: "Censure...