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Last week Germany awoke when Neville Chamberlain sent a telegram to Secretary General Joseph A. C. Avenol of the League of Nations. In accordance with the League resolution to help Finland, he said, Britain intended "to afford the Finnish Government all the assistance she is in a position to give. She already is taking necessary steps to this...
...Atkins goes back to his regiment he finds solicitous "personnel officers"-created by Hore-Belisha-who have no other duty than to watch over his personal welfare. In short the Army has been "vigorously democratized," and there was no question last week of canceling out these reforms when Neville Chamberlain quietly obtained the resignation of his War Secretary. At No. 10 Downing Street the Prime Minister told Mr. Hore-Belisha, "You will live in history." Gradual democratization not only of the Army but of all Britain has in fact been Tory policy for years, under Stanley Baldwin as well...
Father-to-Son. Thus the Cabinet and the generals were well pleased when Neville Chamberlain picked as his new War Secretary last week a man of character and a great gentleman, Mr. Oliver Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby, who was Secretary of State for War in 1916-18 and again in 1922-24. If the time is coming to send Tommy Atkins to glory, death and victory, quiet Mr. Stanley, who won the Croix de Guerre in hot fighting on the Western Front, will not hold the Army back. Neither will he go-get. That is practically guaranteed...
...Most vigorous character to arise anew in European affairs was Britain's Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, but he was not the head of Government. Doubtful it was, moreover, if Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would go down as a great war figure. History would probably regard him as an example of magnificent stubbornness-stubborn for peace, then stubborn...
...tumbled days that ushered in World War II, contains little new or startling. But for anyone who wants to keep Hitler's actual voice around the house, it is a collector's item. From shortwave radio speeches and from foreign recordings, the producers caught Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier in action, fitted their own voices into the pattern of war in the making. Momentous remarks: Chamberlain, after Munich (sounding like a man having trouble with his uppers): "I believe it is peace for our time"; Hitler, less than a year later (while a quieter voice translates): "Our soldiers have been...