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Acclaimed for its explanation of its policy toward the Russo-Finnish war (see col. 3), the British Government (and Parliament) prepared to go home for Easter. One question still weighed on Parliament's collective mind (and on the minds of lots of other people), so the Chamberlain Government briskly addressed itself to relieving the pressure. The question: Were the Allies wise to pursue their seven-month "Sitzkrieg...
...before Prime Minister Chamberlain had told the House: "I know that there are some who would urge a more vigorous policy, who say that by some unexplained, imaginative stroke of daring we ought, as they say, to wrest to ourselves the initiative. With the responsibility that rests upon the shoulders of this Government we cannot be hustled into adventures which appear to us to present little chance of success and much chance of danger and perhaps disaster...
...books, an inner War Cabinet under pat-standing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was in the cards. If blitzkrieging were in order, the Admiralty's pugnacious Winston Churchill was the man for the job. Otherwise, the Government would just rock along under the direct leadership of Hardware Man Chamberlain...
...failure of the Allies to prevent Finland's fall was one sentimental reason that the Daladier Government fell sympathetically last week (see p. 20). In Great Britain, too, the Finnish post-mortem continued, but with a difference. On the strength of it the Chamberlain Government was described as "riding a bull market." Far from condemning what Britain had done and left undone for brave little Finland, from an unexpected source, the Labor benches in the House of Commons, M. P. Josiah Wedgwood rejoiced: "If it were not for the greatest piece of luck this country...
Nevertheless, Prime Minister Chamberlain, notwithstanding the demurrer of one secretive Scots Member, squared away to reveal exactly what assistance Britain had and had not sent the Finns...