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Late in 1938, while Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax were trying to appease Mussolini, De Man went to see Romains in Paris, told him of a scheme to have a peace conference called by one of the five sovereigns of northern Europe (Belgium's King Leopold, Norway's King Haakon, Sweden's King Gustaf, Denmark's King Christian, The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina). Four of them were to write to the fifth (Leopold) urging him to save the peace of Europe; then Leopold was to appeal to Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler...
After 29 years of public life gaunt, gout-ridden Neville Chamberlain retired last week to nurse his failing health. To the once bitterly critical Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, who succeeded him as Prime Minister, Chamberlain addressed a letter in the tone of the adviser and friend he had become in recent months. It began "Dear Winston," explained his reasons for retiring, concluded "Yours ever." "Dear Winston" replied with equal gallantry in the prose for which history undoubtedly will remember...
Bevin Up. The Chamberlain exit put into the all-powerful War Cabinet a patient, stubborn slab of a man named Ernest ("Give 'Itler 'Ell") Bevin. As the National Government's new Minister of Labor he has so ably unmuddled his department that his hold on the popular imagination is the greatest political phenomenon of the war. Built like a beer barrel, ungrammatically eloquent Bevin wedged himself into the revised Cabinet as the apex of pyramiding trade-union strength. No mere pub gabble was the talk of Bevin as "our next Prime Minister." However, there were no signs...
...Jobs. Upstairs to Chamberlain's old job as Lord President of the Council stumbled Sir John Anderson, whose experiences as policeman in Ireland, Bengal and the General Strike gave him poor training for the job of Minister for Home Security...
Steam Off. Best valve available last week through which to blow off angry popular steam was old Mr. Chamberlain. The London Times bade him good-by by acknowledging that for more than three years he bore "a load of responsibility as heavy and thankless as any that was ever carried by a British Prime Minister. ..." Not so gallant, angry British masses have for months wanted him to take his umbrella, tuck it under his arm, and go back to manufacturing brass bedsteads in Birmingham. For in the British public mind, man and umbrella have come to symbolize...