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...from the Arctic Ocean around through the Atlantic and Mediterranean to the Gulf of Persia. In Paris, wise talk was about swiftly increasing aid for Finland (see p. 24). In London it was reported that M. Daladier had proposed breaking off relations with Russia, but that Mr. Chamberlain restrained him, preferring to let Russia take that initiative. The Manchester Guardian reported: "The Allies are moving toward intervention in the Finnish...
France's Premier Daladier, who hobbled in on canes* to apologize for having to shift this meeting from England (the last was in France, at Amiens), later described the gathering as "formidable" ("tremendous"). Originally the Council consisted of four men: Britain's Prime Minister Chamberlain and Lord Chatfield, France's Daladier and Generalissimo Gamelin. This time Mr. Chamberlain took with him four members of his Cabinet-Lord Halifax (Foreign Affairs), Winston Churchill (Admiralty), Oliver Stanley (War), Sir Kingsley Wood (Air)-plus a number of underling specialists and General Sir Edmund Ironside, chief of the British Imperial General...
...came out flatly with the statement that "the Allies are moving toward intervention in the Finnish war." At Whitehall, a Government spokesman blandly ignored correspondents' questions as to whether the Guardian's statement represented the official British view, but in the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went out of his way to damn Russian air attacks on Finnish towns and to announce that further Allied...
Prime Minister Chamberlain lent seriousness to Great Britain's antispy campaign by announcing in Parliament that his Government is considering drastic steps to keep information from the enemy. The Ministry of Information last week lent gaiety to this campaign. For distribution throughout the land it published a series of posters designed to make talkative Britons "tongue conscious." They show a furtive, ubiquitous little Adolf Hit ler, pencil & paper in hand, listening in to British conversations everywhere: curled up under a bus seat, in a luggage rack, against a telephone booth, under a restaurant table...
...Chamberlain tried to comfort the home front, but his main theme was to reassure the neutrals suffering from the British blockade. "We do not for one moment question the rights of neutrals to decide whether they shall come into the conflict or stay out of it," he said. "But we do ask them, whether they be small or weak or whether they are great and powerful, to consider that though, in the exercise of our undisputed belligerent rights, we may have taken action which causes them inconvenience or even loss, at any rate we have never sunk a neutral ship...