Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King, restless and flushed with anger, tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near in the news censorship self-imposed by the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association. Vehemently, Edward VIII urges his right to marry Mrs. Simpson upon Publisher Beaverbrook whose fingers remain, for the moment, crossed, though later his Daily Express goes cautiously pro-King & Mrs. Simpson...
...sympathy with His Majesty at this time." As the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin is now obviously in that pivotal position he assumes when he may or may not decide to switch the policy of His Majesty's Government completely around, as in the case of Italy & Ethiopia (TIME. Dec. 30), the House senses that "Old Sealed Lips" may again extricate himself penitent but unscathed. When Mr. Churchill tries to make himself heard, the House unexpectedly shows itself hostile to him for the first time in the crisis and he is virtually howled down...
...fistful of petitions confessed: "For three days I have been try ing to kill the Premier." Simultaneously in Japanese political circles the more or less gagged Parliament was reported so restive at the risks the Cabinet is running with its pro-German and pro-Italian pacts (TIME. Dec. 7) and its seizure of Tsingtao, that Japan's dominant militarists were about ready to thrash "those Parliamentary cowards" by having Parlia ment dissolved...
...documents. When opportunist Ambassador Kawagoe suggested that instead he and Foreign Minister Chang should discuss "broad Sino-Japanese problems." General Chang frostily replied: "Continuance of negotiations are useless while Japanese forces remain ashore in Tsingtao and while your Government continues to back the Mongols and Manchukuoans attacking Suiyuan" (TIME. Dec...
...London paper of largest circulation, Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express, carried a leering rumor from The Hague that in the Royal Gardens "someone did catch a glimpse" of the Crown Princess and her fiance, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante}, "just at a moment when the Prince put his arm around the Princess's neck and kissed her." The "someone" who observed the engaged couple may have been Queen Wilhelmina herself or any other Dutch chaperon for all the Daily Express appeared to know, but Lord Beaverbrook's paper carried the story...