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...senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N. Y.) offered $10,000 for the capture of Chamberlain and Reynaud "dead or alive...
...covered Prime Minister Chamberlain's historic statement in Commons on the British withdrawal from Norway yesterday, and it was presumed he fell from a suburban train while on his way to the country for a night's rest before returning for today's session of Commons...
...London, this Gallipoli Day was another bad one for Winston Churchill and his war colleagues in the Chamberlain Government. For out of Scandinavia crackled a story which, on a smaller but similarly bloody scale, charged another blunder like that of the Gallipoli beachheads. It was a story written at white heat by white-haired War Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News, after he visited the Northwestern Expeditionary Force near its beachhead at Namsos, Norway (see p. 22). Mr. Stowe wrote, in indignation, of two advance battalions of raw British troops, without artillery, antiaircraft, supporting planes or even white...
...British communiqué was issued calling it a "distortion of the facts." British newspapers (except the Times of London) carried extracts from it and demanded greater frankness from the High Command. Correspondent Stowe and his employers squeezed their "beat" for every drop of blood, even claimed that the Chamberlain Government might have fallen had the full Stowe text reached the British public...
Died. Captain D. S. King, 33, British Airways pilot, who flew the plane that carried Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Germany during the Munich crisis in 1938; in a plane crash near Loch Lomond. Two other crisis pilots have also died in air crashes...