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Reason for these amenities was that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had sent Il Duce a dovelike message on the Spanish question. Mussolini sent a not less silky reply to London. The contents, though "secret," were soon being discussed in every capital in Europe: Mussolini was highly delighted by the British "gesture of friendship...
...Mussolini, who has been hotly demanding recognition of Franco and stirring up Italian editors to flay "Tony"' Eden, that last week the Dictator confiscated the entire edition of an Italian humorous weekly which had mildly cartooned "Tony." As the British Parliament adjourned to Oct. 21, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wrote and privately dispatched to II Duce a "personal letter of friendship...
When cherubic Winston Churchill, who feels keenly that he received no bid to enter the Chamberlain Cabinet and is making the Prime Minister pay dear for this slight, arose with his innocent air, the House of Commons was ripe for the deft amendment he proposed. This was that the House, instead of approving the Government's proposal to partition Palestine and submitting this act of the Mother of Parliaments to the "yes" or "no" decision of the League of Nations, should simply send the Government proposals to Geneva. Thus, if the League says...
...pleased, British King George VI might sit down and write a letter to Prime Minister Chamberlain, urging him to go out and take steps to found a world organization for the Solution of Economic Problems. The trouble would be that in Britain "it isn't done," but in Belgium it is. Last week young, vigorous and thoughtful King Leopold III did it in a friendly letter which began "Dear Prime Minister" and was signed...
Scapegrace King Carol was received at Maryborough House in London last week by discriminating Queen Mary who did not receive his henna-haired Jewish friend, Mme Magda Lupescu. After both Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had called upon His Majesty, King Carol announced with a keen sense of timing that he had just bought the $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin which was leased last year by King Edward VIII for his cruise with Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Said His Majesty: "She is a beautiful vessel, one of the most splendid afloat. I need relief sometimes from State...