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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, reedy, gentle, devoutly religious and pro-German is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of York, Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale York, Knight of the Garter, onetime Viceroy of India (TIME, May u, 1931, et ante), today Lord President of the Council and Government Leader in the House of Lords. In London, the abrupt decision of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Lord Halifax should go to visit Adolf Hitler last week came more & more to be regarded as a "humiliation" to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German...
...Stanley Baldwin turned the straw votes into Conservative ballots by casting handsome young Anthony Eden spectacularly in the role of the League's Galahad, defender of Ethiopia, had the late King George V dissolve Parliament and order an election at exactly the psychological moment (TIME. Nov. 25, 1935, et ante). With the huge Conservative majority then won, Britain's present Conservative Cabinet is carrying on today under Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who is colder to Geneva than even Mr. Baldwin was. Recently he dropped the League of Nations completely out of the annual Speech from the Throne (TIME...
...visit of state last week was its essence, whereas his informal visit to London last March was quietly devoted to the big business of setting up by treaty Belgium's present status as a neutral, protected in 1937 by British, French and German guarantees (TIME, April 5 et seq.). On quiet visits to London came last fortnight little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and King George II of Greece...
...Pulgar de Burke of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Rebecca Hourwich Reyher of New York-left Hyde Park, N. Y. on October 30, with President Roosevelt's benediction, to exhort the Latin American nations into ratifying the Inter-American conference peace treaties (TIME, Dec. 14 et...
...United Air Lines transcontinental airliner crashed last month on a 10,000 ft. peak of the Uinta Mts. 51 miles east of Salt Lake City, killing 19, a Bureau of Air Commerce Investigating Board was en route to the scene before rescuers reached the shattered ship (TIME, Oct. 25 et seq.). Last week, in record time, their verdict was reached. It did not specifically mention "pilot error," did little to dispel the belief of many airmen that Earl Woodgerd, a notably careful pilot, believed all was well and he was safe on his course up to the moment he flew...