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Virtually certain to win a future Nobel Peace Prize award would be the statesman-conjurer who could persuade both sides of the 23-month-old Spanish Civil War to lay down their arms and peacefully mediate their differences. Last week Great Britain's peace-talking Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, slyly let it be known through "authoritative" sources that he was considering waving a magic wand in that direction...
Ultimate aim of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's "realistic" foreign policy is a revival of the 1933 four-power agreement, cosily bedding together Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany, leaving Soviet Russia to sleep on the pool table. But nobody is ready to turn in with anyone else until the problems of the Spanish war are settled. So last week Prime Minister Chamberlain called the battered and bruised nine-nation subcommittee of the Committee on Non-intervention to consider the realities of a new British plan. Its provisions...
Afraid to forge ahead without Russia and thus leave her legally free to continue Soviet aid to the Leftists, Chamberlain's mouthpiece, the Earl of Plymouth, subcommittee chairman, dumped the plan back in the Prime Minister's lap and postponed the session until this week. Meanwhile, Mr. Chamberlain will try not very hopefully to win Moscow's acceptance...
...long-awaited Opposition demand for a public washing of Great Britain's air rearmament problems was beaten off last week as Prime Minister Chamberlain swung his Conservative M.P.s into line and downed a Labor motion for an inquiry, 329 votes to 144. Since many Conservatives had previously howled as loudly as the Opposition in attacking the Air Ministry while it was under the ousted Viscount Swinton, Mr. Chamberlain last week had to threaten Conservative members with ostracism at election time in order to insure himself of a comfortable margin...
...personal exchange between portly, twinkly-eyed independent Tory Winston Churchill and the solemn-faced Prime Minister. Expressing regret that New Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood had been taken from his "salubrious employment as Minister of Health and forced to don the panoply of Mars," Mr. Churchill cracked that Mr. Chamberlain was trying to solve the air problems by "putting a round peg in a square hole." The House roared with laughter. Sir Kingsley, called "Cherub" by his friends, is as round-bellied as Mr. Churchill himself...