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Foot was out as editor of the Standard. He had been disclosed as "Cassius," author of last month's Tory-scorching bestseller, The Trial of Mussolini, in which the defense summons Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Simon and many another resounding name as character witnesses for the Duce. In 1940 Foot and two other Standard men, using the name of "Cato," wrote Guilty Men, an indictment of prewar appeasers, blunderers and incompetents, including several attacked again by Cassius. That time, Beaverbrook had carefully looked the other...
...Labor Ministers out of Churchill's coalition Cabinet ("Come out of the Government and fight for your socialist convictions-if you still have them. If you've lost them, get out"); 2) to rub out the shame of Munich ("Anybody who was associated with the Chamberlain Government should be hounded out of public life"); 3) to capture Leslie Hore-Belisha's seat in the House of Commons ("About a year ago Hore-Belisha went into a monastery and came out saying he wanted to go back again. I hope to assist...
...Europe's capitals-to London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Prague and Vienna. She was in Germany during the frantic days just before Munich when the Czechs were mobilizing and France was calling up her reserves-crossed five miles of mined border into Holland en route to Britain - there heard Chamberlain defend before the House of Commons his tragic effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion's key officials-and in 1940 she traveled...
...late Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was given a new title: Minister of State in the Foreign Office. Dick Law has worked on U.S. newspapers, writes waltzing British prose. He is perhaps the most up & coming of young Conservatives, opposed the Chamberlain Government just before it fell, headed the British delegation to the United Nations' food conference in Virginia and the refugee conference in Bermuda...
When a man retires, he usually retires. Not so Bishop John Chamberlain Ward of Erie, Pa. Last week, retiring because of age (he is 70 and the Episcopal Church's Bishops can doff their "magpies,"* draw their pensions at 68), Dr. Ward volunteered for a year's missionary service. No other retiring Episcopal Bishop has ever done such a thing. Dr. Ward's mission: St. Peter's Church, Seward, Alaska...