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Whether or not Britain's Prime Minister can accurately be called "Bumbler Baldwin" has been a grave Empire question to which Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., last week gravely addressed himself in the House of Commons...
...Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, is the No. I member of the ruling British Conservative Party. No. 2 member is the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and younger half-brother of Sir Austen, who today figures as perhaps the Empire's leading "elder statesman...
...even greater care, Sir Austen went on to scrutinize the Prime Minister's conduct, remarks and policy respecting the Ethiopian Question (TIME, Dec. 30). Of portly, pipe-sucking Mr. Stanley Baldwin's confused statements in the House of Commons on that occasion, austere, hawk-featured Sir Austen Chamberlain concluded at crushing length: "I recall no comparable pronouncement by the head of the Government on a fundamental issue of defense in the 40 years of my parliamentary experience. Is it to be wondered at that some of us who are not alarmists, some of us who had a large...
...British playwrights. Bernard Shaw has had only four plays censored. I have had 32." The original version of Victoria Regina was a series of 32 one-act plays. Because three of Victoria's children, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Beatrice and the Princess Louise, were living, the Lord Chamberlain banned them all. Chuckled Playwright Housman last week: "We gave a private performance of the play and one of the ladies in waiting attended for Queen Mary to see if everything was all right. She reported favorably to Her Majesty, who then sent for the script. 'Dear, dear...
Although pious expressions looking toward international monetary stabilization have indeed been made by President Roosevelt and Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer, their acts in cheapening and artificially juggling the values of the dollar and the pound have been a plain contradiction of these expressions. As for M. Tannery and the regents of the Bank of France last week, what they were actually getting at was not entirely clear. A new Cabinet of the Left Centre took office in Paris fortnight ago, and if devaluation or inflation or "panic" should come soon the kickback from enraged French voters...