Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addressing a private conference of Laborite M. P.s, Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition Clement R. Attlee put first on his list of Opposition aims the idea of federation. Next day Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax broadcast to the world what were supposed to be Britain's official aims-and federation was not among them...
...Neutrals' suspicion that Italian-German friendship had cooled since Sept. 1 deepened last week. As one indication of Italy's independence, the Italian Government signed a trade agreement with Britain. As another, the Italian press leaped at the chance to tell the Germans publicly just what Italy thought of the Nazi-Bolshevik alliance...
Pressure for a declaration of war aims has been severe in Britain. One of the aims collapsed with Poland. Another-Stop Hitler-was negative and took no account of the future. When Belgium and The Netherlands last week proposed peace, Britain's Government tried to decide and announce what it expects of peace...
Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best-selling trilogy and a four-star movie made Pitcairn Island the most publicized hideout on the seven seas, and prompted a well-meaning, sympathetic U. S. to enrich the 200-odd hybrid islanders with all sorts of civilized niceties, including a powerful amateur short-wave radio station, VR6AY...
...odds-on bet that Alice in Wonderland could not keep out of the war very long once Great Britain got in. Last week news of an extraordinary Triple Alliance-Lewis Carroll, Adolf Hitler and the British Broadcasting Corp. reached the U. S. Alice had become a wild satire called Adolf in Blunderland, a skit that ably combined entertainment value with rib-tickling, moral-upping, home propaganda value...