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...Japan. The Tokyo talks between Negotiators Sir Robert and Arita reached a crucial stage. Japan demanded as the price of raising the Tientsin blockade that Great Britain cease supporting Chinese currency and turn over to her the Chinese silver stocks deposited in British Concessions. On this point Mr. Chamberlain has said that he would never yield. Last week, with the U.S. throwing a scare into the Japanese, concession seemed out of the question, even if it meant breaking off the parley...
Lord Balniel, 38, is the eldest son and heir of the 27th Earl of Crawford. He is a director of the Bank-of-England-controlled $28,000,000 Lancashire Steel Corp., Ltd. He is a member of Parliament, one of 415 Conservative Party members who give Prime Minister Chamberlain his majority, crisis after crisis. So are two of his brothers-in-law. So is his wife's brother-in-law and the ex-husband of another of her sisters. So are the husbands of three of her first cousins. Viscount Wolmer, another Tory M.P., is distantly related...
...sometimes reads like the society page of a small-town newspaper conscientiously reporting a family reunion. This has the effect of making wealthy Tories appear less menacing than the authors intended. Also weakening the picture is the fact that many a rich M.P. opposes his cousins, follows some anti-Chamberlain policies that the authors of the book advocate. Persuasive rather than strident, the book is obviously aimed for this autumn's probable General Election, attacks pro-Nazis and the Munich settlement, adopts a stern tone only when discussing outright Fascists and Conservatives and the Tory members of the Anglo...
This week, however, ear-to-the-ground Neville Chamberlain told the House that Cabinet Ministers, forbidden since 1906 to hold directorships in public companies, would henceforth be obliged to give up also their directorships in private companies (unincorporated companies not required to issue annual reports). It was revealed that the hardest hit Minister, shipping tycoon Lord President of the Council Viscount Runciman, had already given up six important private directorships...
Early last week foreign correspondents in London, Moscow and Paris reported that the Anglo-Soviet pact was just about ready for signing. Late last week Prime Minister Chamberlain discussed it fully in a foreign affairs debate in the House of Commons. These sensational developments, however, were made somewhat less exciting by the fact that the pact had been reported ready for signing at least a dozen times before. Indeed, to detached observers the proceedings appeared less like diplomatic negotiations than like the scene in Hellzapoppin, in which a young man promises to escape from a strait jacket in five seconds...