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Appease Stalin? Generally accepted as Britain's No. i reason for abandoning Czecho-Slovakia last fall was the antipathy of the British ruling class toward the U.S.S.R., CzechoSlovakia's nearest friend. Even though they know that probably no combination in Europe could beat France, Britain and Russia, most British bigwigs hate and fear "the Bolshies." Significant it was, therefore, when Prime Minister Chamberlain and most of his Cabinet turned up last week at a Soviet Embassy reception given by Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky. Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald was the last British Prime Minister to tread that ground...
...three months following on foot the arduous trails in a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks in Canton. He made it his business and pleasure to have a finger in every interesting pie, became fast friends with Chiang Kaishek, Thomas Masaryk, Ibn Saud. At a critical moment in Czecho-Slovakia's history he supplied Masaryk with the necessary funds to become President. Later his daughter, Frances, married Masaryk's son, Jan (since divorced...
...Professor is laid in an imaginary small country suggestive of Austria on the eve of Anschluss, Czecho-Slovakia on the eve of Munich. Professor A., greatest living authority on Sophocles, is a democrat who, in order to quell a riot of Fascist and Red students, reminds them that Socrates...
...Chinese; 4) the U. S. puts an embargo on iron, oil and planes to Japan; 5) England and France do not make a deal to dismember China, as a means of blocking both Japanese imperialism and a possible victory for the Chinese Communists; 6) China does not become another Czecho-Slovakia or Loyalist Spain...
...little wrong with Britain's bloody ships because Lord Chatfield as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff had the job of bringing them to scratch. But there was plenty wrong with the rest of her three-year rearmament efforts. Four months have passed since the Czecho-Slovak war scare but few measures apparent to the public have been taken to improve Britain's shockingly weak defenses...