Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just what was "Sir" Neville Chamberlain doing in the British House of Commons as reported in TIME for Nov. 6, p. 20? The last I heard he was still just plain Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Did TIME knight him or did TIME slip...
...mild protest from a French Canadian. Your excellent account of the election in Quebec (TIME, Nov. 6) is marred by two obvious mistakes. You suggest that the fact that France as well as Britain is in the present war played a part. You are wrong. French Canadians voted to go with the rest of the country, and the rest of the country, as well as the French Canadians, are in this war, not for Britain, nor for France, but for freedom...
Business. The U. S. should stay out of the war, cooperate economically with Great Britain and France. "There is nothing that businessmen the world over fear and detest quite so much as war. ... I wish someone would run down the sources of the idea that businessmen are inclined to war. ... In recent years we have seen Japan's aggressions in Asia, and Italy's in Africa, and Hitler's. ... Is there anyone in his right mind who would suggest that these acts of violence . . . have been favored or promoted by business interests...
...Meanwhile," the assistant professor commented, "the Chinese feel that they are fighting what may prove to be the first phase of a world conflict between democracies and dictatorships, and they look forward with confidence to victory if they are not denied support from Great Britain and the United States...
...Cross wife. But the actors had little to do, less to say. Interest was focused on the actual techniques of air fighting. High light was a re-enactment of the Kiel raid, showing the actual participants leaving and (some of them) returning. The film's thesis: Britain has developed air defenses that can scatter the modern Invincible Armada-Nazi bombing planes...