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Nobody loves animals more than the English. They keep pythons in London flats, monkeys in the East End and dogs everywhere. One of the proudest days in Ornithologist Neville Chamberlain's life was when, during one of his customary early morning bird-watching walks with his wife in St. James's Park, he spotted a rare, migratory, dark-pied wagtail duck...
LONDON--Great Britain will not permit the use of Norweglan or other neutral waters by the German fleet, Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain declared in Parliament today, repeating the British charge of Norwegian negligence in handling the German prison ship Altmark...
...London Eire High Commissioner John Dulanty, on orders of the Prime Minister, appealed to Dominions Secretary Anthony Eden for clemency, spent 20 minutes trying to persuade Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to stay the sentence. Mrs. Tom Clarke, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, whose husband was killed by the British in 1916, telegraphed Mayor Joseph Holt of Coventry to ask that he appeal for a reprieve. Mayor Holt replied: "Am sure you will agree that the Coventry crime was dreadful in its deliberation and consequences to innocent people." Eire labor unions threatened strikes as a "mark of humiliation...
...said Adolf Hitler every 53 words; Mussolini, every 83 words; President Roosevelt, every 100 words. These were the findings of a Syracuse University student making a survey of their speeches. Additional "I" data: Premier Daladier uses the personal pronoun every 234 words; Prime Minister Chamberlain only once...
...Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain's and Halifax's "failures" had embarrassed his committee colleagues.) Their Declaration drafted, they will pass it along to a group of international lawyers for checking, then try to sell it to the civilized world...