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...Japanese further argued Chinese currency should be declared valueless. But this-since it would be granting de facto recognition of Japan's ascendancy in North China-Sir Robert at first refused to do on the insistence of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Last week he reconsidered, then declared a recess while "awaiting further instruction" from London...
...Congress, except that it did everything backwards. Congress wanted to go home (see p. 11). Parliament wanted to stay in session. In Washington "Government" whips had tried to keep rebellious Congressmen in session to pass the President's bills. In London Conservative Party whips threatened purges, Prime Minister Chamberlain lost his temper, disgruntled members of the Party in power spoke out in open revolt, Oppositionists cheered signs of a growing split, as the members drew back from the dread prospect of a two-month vacation. The two great organs of Anglo-Saxon democracy imitated each other in the same...
...post-Munich debate. The occasion was a Government motion for adjournment. Labor, about as strong as the Republicans were in Congress in 1936, offered an amendment that the House reassemble in three weeks instead of two months. Last year, when Parliament adjourned (after a reassuring speech by Prime Minister Chamberlain), it reassembled to be faced by the Czecho-Slovak Crisis, and many a member among loyal pro-Chamberlain Conservatives felt uneasily that it might return to face a comparable crisis this autumn, that such a crisis would be hard to explain to the voters at home...
...attitude favorable; 4) rejecting Russia's proposal for a six-power conference as premature. By the end of March Russia was reported: 1) to be pleased by the British stand on Poland; 2) to see Britain yielding; 3) to be ready to sign; 4) to doubt Prime Minister Chamberlain's sincerity...
Holding them up all this time, said Prime Minister Chamberlain last week, were conflicting definitions of "indirect aggression"-i.e., a Nazi coup in Latvia, Estonia, or other states which may be guaranteed against aggression by the pact. France, Great Britain and Russia all wanted to avoid giving the impression that they were "encroaching upon the independence" of the guaranteed countries. France and Great Britain felt that the Russian proposals could be interpreted in this way. But, he added, all three realize that "indirect aggression might be just as dangerous as direct aggression and all three desire to find a satisfactory...