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Only an adroit photographer can snap lean Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain in such wise as to make it seem that he might have a paunch (see cut), but the same is not true of John Bull and last week His Majesty's Government launched an enormously costly campaign to make currently flabby Britons fit. To establish more playing fields and pay the wages of gymnastic instructors. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, who seems as lean as the Prime Minister but unlike him distinctly more pink-faced, has budgeted this year about $12,500,000. Mr. Chamberlain...
Dictators Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler lead the world in making millions of young people take healthful exercise whether they want to or not. but Neville Chamberlain was too wise to ask his British audience to look with admiration on the bronzed, athletic youth of any place except Scandinavia. "I am afraid," cried tentative Orator Chamberlain, "that in this matter [physical culture] some other nations, and especially Scandinavians, have got ahead of us, but I am confident we shan't be long in making up for lost time! ... I appeal for a concentrated and determined crusade against ignorance, carelessness...
...June 19, 1933 et ante) and revamp it into a Five-Power Pact by adding Poland. In this scheme for organizing a unity of states in Europe proper without the Soviet Union, the Dictators were reputed in London to have last week the goodwill of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, could count on brilliant Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to make plenty more of the trouble for them he started hatching at Nyon...
Pirates Won't Play? This move smacked of Mr. Chamberlain rather than of Mr. Eden. It amounted to scuttling almost the whole apparatus of Non- Intervention set up and maintained because Britain and France have insisted that this offered the best means of confining the war to Spain and minimizing its horrors (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936 et seq.). In newsorgans throughout the world the fact that Non-Intervention was being scuttled passed almost unnoticed amid the blaze of headlines about preparing to hunt pirates. Supposing, however, that the pirates should now simply decide not to play pirate any more...
Significance. All signs pointed to a much deeper European game than simple scotching of "pirates" in the Mediterranean, a game in which Chamberlain and Mussolini are attempting to grope toward mutual understanding, perhaps on the lines of the Four-Power Pact by which Britain, France, Italy and Germany agreed some years ago to cooperate for the peace of the world (TIME, June 19, 1933, et ante). Dormant though it has lain, this Pact still exists, is one of the boojums with which Stalin frightens Russians from time to time, pointing to it as a "proof" that there is a Capitalist...