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With events at this crucial stage, Prime Minister Chamberlain moved quickly to save the Franco-Italian agreement from complete discard and to save his own Italian pact from collapse. In Rome British Ambassador Lord Perth called on Foreign Minister Ciano, urged him to continue the talks. In London, the Earl of Plymouth was instructed to call the moribund Committee on Non-intervention into session this week. There Britain will propose that France close her Pyrenees frontier to supplies for a 30-day period, while the committee reaches an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign fighters from both sides. Last week...
From Berlin, as the crisis-packed week came to a close, the Czechs indirectly received another reassurance. Adolf Hitler himself informed sources claimed, had sent anxious British Prime Minister Chamberlain the guarantee that Germany had not the slightest intention of marching into Czechoslovakia at this stage of the game...
...first serious rift between Britain's Big Business and Big Business Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain developed last week when Lord Weir, adviser to the Air Ministry and to the Cabinet Committee of Imperial Defense, resigned both posts. Reason: protest against Prime Minister Chamberlain's ouster of Viscount Swinton as Air Secretary fortnight ago. Lord Swinton was not getting Britain rearmed in the air as fast as the House of Commons thought he should...
While Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of playing ball with Mussolini was receiving distrustful glances from France last week, it received its first nod of approval from the voters at home. In a parliamentary bye-election at Aylesbury, Bucks., fought largely over Conservative Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy, the Conservative candidate, Sir Stanley Reed, won a comfortable victory over his Liberal and Laborite opponents. Sir Stanley polled 21,695 votes, the Liberal candidate 10,751 and the Laborite...
...Opposition, one for the Government. The Opposition victories were hung up in West Fulham, outside London, and in Lichfield, onetime home of famed, blustering Dr. Samuel Johnson. In these contests, although Laborites and Liberals have rejected the idea of a "Popular Front" to oppose Prime Minister Chamberlain, the two parties fortunately managed to put but one candidate in the field. Last week anti-Chamberlain factions bewailed the fact that two Opposition candidates had split the Aylesbury field, but a united front would have meant little change in the result. The Conservative Party has long had the Aylesbury constituency under control...