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These bold words came last week from no embittered follower of Neville Chamberlain, at outs with Winston Churchill's Government. Published in Canada's No. 1 magazine, Maclean's, they were the work of a Dominion-born newspaperman and politician, Beverley Baxter. A longtime aide of gnomelike little Lord Beaverbrook, 49-year-old Newsman Baxter is a member of Britain's Parliament, an unpaid efficiency expert for British factory workers. His job is to pep up the men's morale...
Died. General Sir Charles Harington Harington, 68, veteran of the Boer War and World War I (Flanders and Near East campaigns), Governor of Gibraltar through most of the Spanish Civil War and, as such, Neville Chamberlain's adviser on Spain; in retirement at Cheltenham, England. In 1939 he said: "That Spain under Franco is going to be dictated to by either Hitler or Mussolini, I just don't believe and never have...
...After MacDonald and Baldwin came Chamberlain, who "liked to be called 'British like beef,' " but was really "an eccentric figure behind a disguise of excessive normality." The appeasers were in. "All they wanted was to lay their heads on the block and be left in peace, peace!" Von Ribbentrop came visiting and proselyting. "A wave of political perversion broke over polite society...
These ideas, unthinkable in the Baldwin-Chamberlain era, sounded reasonable and good to most Britons last week. Irritation in Conservative circles over what was termed Labor's exploitation of the national crisis to revive social issues was submerged under a wave of popular endorsement. Never before had a T. U. C. conference attracted such wide attention, achieved such prominence in the newspapers. Wrote London's Times: "Here again was the recognition of relations of cooperation for great and common ends." Editorialized London's Express: "All skeins of diplomacy, all military feats, panics, rumors, sorties and full assaults...
...there must be even more than this submergence of personality in the common effort. Timing must be improved; many yells last Saturday were about as well-timed as a Chamberlain diplomatic move. Respect must be had for the sensibilities of a Harvard cheerer. It must be realized that he is most likely to become suddenly absorbed in the H.A.A. News if called upon to compete with the Army band. Once he was coerced into a cheer while his own band was playing. This was too much. Result was complete frustration for both leaders...