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Last week Neville Chamberlain returned from his Scottish salmon-fishing trip. The fishing had been poor but London toy-shops sprouted timely little booted Neville Chamberlain dolls holding a rod & reel in one hand, a little sign saying PEACE MAKER in the other...
...Generalissimo now that Canton is at stake. White correspondents in Tokyo flashed that the Japanese would have preferred a European war to the peace of Munich, since war would have completely tied British hands in the Far East. Tokyo was watching Joseph Stalin as well as Neville Chamberlain, and when the purge of the Soviet Far East Army officers got under way recently, Japan concluded she need not keep so many troops in North China and Manchukuo facing the Russians. It was mainly Japanese forces released from their "watch in the North" who drove into South China this week...
...China watched breathlessly to see whether the Cantonese military leaders would resist Japan or waver in the allegiance which nearly all Chinese have shown to Chiang Kaishek, "The Great Unifier." His entourage last week put the blame on Neville Chamberlain, attributed the Japanese drive on Canton to collapse of British prestige at Munich and predicted that not only will the Cantonese fight but their resistance will so overextend Japan that it will cost...
...been notably anxious to have Europe's air fleets limited by some kind of pact. Journalistic furor in London was therefore immense last week when unconfirmed rumors began buzzing that at Munich three weeks ago fat Field Marshal Hermann Göring genially told lean Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that an air pact not only is a good idea but ought to be signed on the basis that Germany can have three planes for every British...
Literature. Clearest, best-reasoned chapter on the cultural impasse of the Left is John Chamberlain's essay. Why, he asks, has the promised "proletarian" renaissance of contemporary fiction fizzled out? His answer: Because writers, with few important exceptions, can no longer find a moral basis for their characterizations; they cannot make up their minds whether to be evolutionists or revolutionists; their values shift constantly with "radical morality, in a world of Moscow trials, undeclared wars, 'Trojan-horse' tactics, and political 'timing' that frequently works out into two-timing...