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...While we build up Britain's strength, I will strive to remove the causes of war in the world!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain promised in the House of Commons this week, as he asked approval for armed forces expenditure this year of $1,758,750,000 (see p. 18). In his house at No. 10 Downing Street, meanwhile, he had given swift impetus last week to negotiations for the Four-Power Pact which Britain, Germany, France and Italy will try to make (TIME, March 7), possibly admitting Poland to make it a Fiver...
Even top correspondents were flatly told by the entourage of Chamberlain & Friends that every effort will be made to keep them from learning any details of the negotiations now begun, until the four Great Powers are ready to issue communiqués (handouts), expected in about six weeks. Hitler last week was handed what Chamberlain had to say by British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson, who brought the papers personally from London. This week the Führer's reply will be taken to London by the new German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The French Ambassador was messenger...
...Neville Chamberlain, angered by criticism of the secrecy with which he is trying to make a European Peace through diplomatic channels instead of at Geneva, this week hotly told the Commons...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain recently sounded fair warning that rearmament expenditure by Britain will continue to increase each year at least through fiscal 1940. Explaining itself, the Chancellor's White Paper said: "The paper proceeds on the assumption, now almost universally accepted, that the steps taken by His Majesty's Government to make good our defense are unavoidable and that they furnish a steadying influence in the present state of international relations...
...Producer Chamberlain Brown announced after the Brooklyn flop, again last week after the Ossining triumph, that he intended to take Taken from Life to Broadway...