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With the whole world thus searching for loopholes in the British pledge, Septuagenarian Chamberlain this week rose again to speak in the House. In the diplomatic gallery U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky, French Ambassador André Corbin listened. On the floor the group of M. P.'s who had long scoffed at the Prime Minister's efforts to get along with Herr Hitler hung on his words...
During the Revolutionary War one Clement Corbin fought with the Connecticut Regulars. Mr. Corbin might have become a famed hero, a traitor or a general. He did none of the three and was ignored by U. S. history until last week when, after 150 years, the ultimate result of his pugnacity finally became apparent in Washington, D. C. It was that his great-great-granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Martyn Robert Jr. of Annapolis, Md. was elected President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution...
...Corbin would doubtless have been bewildered by the spectacle...
...last week's best count, 5,000 Leftists would be more than a quarter of all foreigners in the International Brigade. The symbolic recall of 5,000 Italians would leave from 60,000 to 85,000 of them still in Spain. Therefore André Charles Corbin, French delegate at the Non-intervention Committee, tried to insist that all "symbolic recalls" should be "proportional," in the proportion of four Rightists to one Leftist volunteer...
...Office, a procedure almost unprecedented. It was forced into the open after Premier Laval asked to see Britain's copy of Germany's new Naval building plans and was readily promised them by Mr. Eden, so that France could proceed to make her plans. Next day French Ambassador Charles Corbin called at the British Foreign Office for the promised papers, discovered that the British Admiralty had them and by secret agreement with Germany refused to let France have copies. In efforts to calm M. Corbin he was told of an "ancient statute" under which if the higher Admiralty officials feel...