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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new "realistic" formula for assuring peace to troubled Europe, namely, negotiation of agreements between nations to remove causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
...pledge to withdraw her troops from Rightist Spain, at which time the agreement would go into effect. This seemed "realistic" indeed at the time. Day before the pact was signed Rightist Generalissimo Franco's troops planted their flags on the shores of the Mediterranean and both Chamberlain and Mussolini were convinced that further Leftist resistance would be short-lived. But the Leftists refused to quit. And the thing that gave them most heart was the arrival of at least 200 new planes, presumably from Russia (see p. 16), besides a stream of raw and war materials...
...long imminent reshuffle of the Chamberlain Cabinet came this week, hastened by heavy debating pressure upon His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons. Charges that Viscount Swinton as Air Secretary has made a muddle of his end of British Rearmament were hurled even by some M.P.s of the Government's own Conservative Party, by many Liberal and Labor M.P.s...
...Conservatives joined greeted a Government declaration that "British factories are filled to capacity with orders!" After hours of acrimonious debate, the Cabinet won a vote of confidence by only 299-to-131, and it was clear that Swinton would have to be permitted to resign, as planned by Tactician Chamberlain, to provide a scapegoat for the unpopular "American purchases...
...House of Commons saw this as a series of merited promotions for Sir Kingsley, MacDonald, Stanley and Elliot who have long been marked as comparatively youthful "comers." In the dropping out of Peers Swinton and Harlech was seen an effort to give the Chamberlain Cabinet a more "democratic" guise before a General Election becomes necessary. This week London papers began saying openly that for this same reason Viscount Halifax may soon be succeeded as Foreign Secretary by a "commoner," possibly even by Vote Getter Anthony Eden...