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...Street, and German diplomatic cards were dealt out by Viscount Halifax. Quietly, this lean, cadaverous British statesman laid the secret demands which Adolf Hitler and Herman Wilhelm Goring recently made to him (TIME. Nov. 29) face up before the French last week, in the presence of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and Sir Robert Vansittart, who is in London the opposite number to Alexis...
...ostensibly only for discussion, the British were by implication asking the French to enter into what David Lloyd George was to call later last week a "thieves' bargain." The diplomatic finesse of M. Léger was meanwhile shown when M. Chautemps and M. Delbos blandly told Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Eden and Sir Robert in effect that France was willing to go just as far in this matter as Britain-whereupon what had seemed to be British ardor to get action last week on behalf of Germany's scheme rapidly cooled, according to best posted London correspondents...
...against giving Hitler any such "free hand" as they had just proved unexpectedly agreeable to going as far into the "thieves' bargain" over colonies as Britain may be ready to go. These tactics by M. Léger quickly brought the negotiations to an amiable pause, with Mr. Chamberlain, who is somewhat pro-German, apparently feeling that the French had been "quite reasonable," should not be pressed...
...quiet dinner at pro-French Mr. Eden's house in Mayfair, and a luncheon with King George and Queen Elizabeth at which Mr. Eden was not present but Mr. Chamberlain was, gave M. Chautemps and M. Delbos further opportunities to make friends. On their departure for Paris, the House of Commons was told by the Prime Minister that "a preliminary examination was made of the colonial question in all its aspects. It was recognized that this question was not one that could be considered in isolation, and moreover would involve a number of other countries...
...Were refused details of what took place at the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Viscount Halifax (TIME, Nov. 29 et ante), but were told by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that "the visit has been valuable in furthering the desire, which I believe to be generally felt in both countries, for the establishment of a closer mutual understanding." This sounded so pro-German that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German, succeeded in getting French Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos invited to London, where they arrived this week to try to discover where His Majesty...