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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has had bad luck with Cabinet Ministers whose Christian names are Leslie. Early this year War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha became such a bumptious headache that Mr. Chamberlain dismissed him. By last week Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin had caused so much trouble for the Government that London's censor-controlled newspapers suggested that the Prime Minister had better get rid of this Leslie...
Transferred to Dominions Secretary he had his first big job in settling the troublesome Eire-British trade war with a treaty satisfactory to both countries. Young MacDonald knew more about birds than either Ornithologists Neville Chamberlain or Eamon de Valera, and that knowledge came in handy when he wanted to deal lightly either with Boss Chamberlain or Antagonist de Valera...
...half-year drew to a close, and a solemn, long-nosed reporter for President Franklin Roosevelt went the rounds of Europe to learn if total war was truly inevitable, spokesmen for both sides restated their war aims more grimly and finally than ever. For the Allies, British Prime Minister Chamberlain said again: Hitler and his crushing "ism" must be wiped out of Europe. For himself and his oligarchy, Adolf Hitler said: he must dominate 125,000,000 Europeans and the world's trade arteries must be freed from Great Britain's "pirate" grip...
...Mean Get-out." In England, white-maned David Lloyd George, 73, the little Welsh lion who galvanized and led the British in 1916-18, has appointed himself a scourge to the Chamberlain Government on the subject of Food. His model farm at Churt, Surrey is but part of his credentials as Food expert: he revealed last week that he faced (and averted) a moment in 1917 "when we were within three weeks of having no bread in the country." Last week, speaking at a luncheon in London's swank Dorchester Hotel, he cried: "I have one message...
Prime Minister Chamberlain replied that his eloquent predecessor, whom he lumped among "venerable prophets of agriculture," was unduly alarmed. The Government's program besides bringing 2,000,000 acres back into cultivation, includes urging people to grow their own vegetables, encouraging subsistence farming. A laying hen in every tool shed is an objective...