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...Politics Adviser Brendan Bracken, jerky, bespectacled, carrot-haired, is chairman of the London Financial News and an intimate of Lord Beaverbrook. As such he replaced Economics Adviser Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's Man Friday and chief traveling companion on the great appeasement junkets. A scathing critic of Munich, Mr. Bracken since break of war used his Financial News to harass the now ousted Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon-created Viscount Simon last week-for not spending fast enough on British armament. Conservative Party whips used to call Brendan Bracken "The Red-Headed Beast," last week found...
...conservative policies of Chamberlain to be considered as an effort that failed, a series of more mistakes, or are they a deliberate conduct of affairs which is contrary to the interests of the masses? If so, what guarantee is there that the war is not waged for the same reasons as those which made the conquest of Ethiopia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, as well as the Spanish War possible...
...German military might led London to speculate on "an improvement of Anglo-Russian relations." ∧ The R. A. F.'s gallant, aggressive action throughout the week (see p. 27) showed that the new Prime Minister was carrying the war to Germany as the Government of Prirne Minister Chamberlain had never dared...
...Neville Chamberlain refused to discuss the Firth affair. But shortly before his Cabinet fell, one of his most influential critics, London's famed Economist, did. Calling the Richard Thomas board "trustees for the cartel," the Economist asked: "Can a centralized, cartel-like organization of industry, in which the interests of an individual firm are subordinated to those of the industry as a whole, be reconciled with the community's interest in the utmost speed of technical progress?" This question acquired a new urgency last week. For Britain has been importing 200,000 tons of steel a month from...
...book, begins to comfort himself and the reader with such emotional catch-phrases as "this amazing little island"; to deliver such debatable statements as "Few countries can boast as high a type of manhood as that produced by the public schools of England"; to remark, "The septuagenarian Neville Chamberlain is symbolic of the virility of the English people"; and to snort "To say that war exhausts is as much nonsense as that exercise weakens." After his long persuasions that night must fall, such whistling in the dark makes the night seem darker...