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Gaston Henry-Haye never met Hitler and there is no record that his activities toward appeasing Germany were less patriotic than those of Neville Chamberlain and many another man of property and peace. Nevertheless, when he arrived in the U. S. as Ambassador, the mass of U. S. citizens instinctively distrusted him because of his background. They have continued to distrust him because Ambassador Henry-Haye has chosen to plead his cause largely among intimates in U. S. salons rather than among the masses in U. S. saloons. His pride, his bitterness that France with her 100,000 World...
...Chamberlain family's peace and appeasement efforts were frustrated in the end, but when "the Lady of Locarno" died last week one of her most prized possessions was still the gold pen with which the Locarno Pact was signed. > Two other ladies of Great Britain made news last week...
Last week death came to Nobel Prize Winner Sir Austen Chamberlain's widow," the Lady of Locarno." Ivy Muriel, Lady Chamberlain, may be remembered longest because one day in Switzerland she gave what cables called "the world's most im portant picnic." This was at Locarno in 1925. Those tireless peace men, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain, were trying to per suade the Republic of Germany to enter the League of Nations and make a final peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose...
Since the war began, many sections of the British press and public have tried to force their Government to state its aims for war and peace. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dodged the question; Prime Minister Winston Churchill begged it again last week: "The first of our war aims [is] to be worthy of that love [of the Dominions]." To many people it would seem silly for a man who is being choked to death to waste breath talking about what he will do if he survives. But an increasingly articulate body of opinion, both in Britain...
...wonder if, in his heart, Lindbergh hasn't changed his mind a little. The England that he knew-the England of Baldwin and Chamberlain-is not this England...