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...most alarming storm signals last week were hoisted over Caxton Hall, not far from Downing Street, where a noisy hodgepodge of 300 anti-Chamberlainites, including Conservative and Liberal M.P.s, Communist Party members and editors of the liberal News Chronicle, set in motion the first all-party united front against the Chamberlain policies. Moving spirits behind the meeting were: its chairman, tall, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced sands), son-in-law of Winston Churchill and, like him, an independent Conservative; Randolph Churchill, florid son of Winston, who has tried and failed three times to enter Parliament; Her Grace, the Duchess of Atholl...
Best interpretation of the meeting was that it was simply a trial balloon, engineered by lesser politicians at the instigation of bigger statesmen, to test how unpopular the Chamberlain appease-the-dictators policy has become. Conspicuously and significantly absent from Caxton Hall were the Conservative but anti-appeasement Big Three-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Baldwin...
...That Journey (Caxton, $2.50), the first novel of a 36-year-old Ohioan named Emerson Price, is a sample of such realism-a transcript of back-alley life, swimming-hole conversation, and those other phases of their private lives which sons conceal from their parents...
...important English example is a perfect copy of Caxton's "Royal Book", dated about 1487. Noteworthy among the Spanish collectors items is the "Usatges do Barcelona e Constituciones do Catalunya", printed at Bareelona about 1495. Among the Portuguese incunabula is a Hebrew Bible, dated in Lisbon...
YUKON VOYAGE-Walter R. Curtin- Caxton Printers...