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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addressing a private conference of Laborite M. P.s, Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition Clement R. Attlee put first on his list of Opposition aims the idea of federation. Next day Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax broadcast to the world what were supposed to be Britain's official aims-and federation was not among them...
...middle-aged woman, she wisely wore a quiet black dress and small black hat with large black velvet snood into which she tucked her mouse-brown hair. Her attorney, King's Counsel Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that he had decided to work for the restoration of the Hohenzollern and Habsburg dynasties. He wanted to be a modern Warwick-the-King-Maker and work on the European rather than the English field...
Since war broke out, Aristide Briand's dream has walked again. When the first Allied shot was fired, many thoughtful Britons began worrying less about what war would be like than about what possible peace could follow it. Many a Briton did not expect young men going to the front to refrain from asking: What are we fighting for? Can we have something better this time than another Versailles and another...
...democracy corrected. "Democracy was right in its insistence on liberty and personal responsibility, but in practice the free peoples have abused the freedom it has given them by turning it, as St. Paul says, to uses of the flesh. . . . The leaders of democracy in Europe have for the first time come publicly to recognize the real root of Europe's persistent troubles and that federalism is the basic remedy for them...
...Japan was self-isolated. It is necessary to rectify Japan's economic portion, and now is the psychological moment, while European powers with interests in the South Seas are preoccupied.. . . It is sometimes proposed that Dutch oil be forcibly seized, but other methods can be tried at first. . . . We do not expect Britain, France and Holland readily to accept our demands, but the longer the war lasts, the more certain it becomes that our ideas will materialize...