Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signature was useless without Poland's, and suggested an anti-Nazi conference. This was apparently too near to definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet did, however, use the State visit last week of President and Mme Albert Lebrun ("Mr. and Mrs. Brown" to Londoners) as a fit occasion to talk matters over with British statesmen. M. le President and His Majesty King George VI also toasted each other's peoples...
...more appeasement. But Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, the two most influential Cabinet members outside of Mr. Chamberlain, were in favor of taking it easy and doing nothing. Sir John's appeasement of aggressors began in 1932 when, as Foreign Secretary, he virtually welcomed Japan's invasion of Manchuria-much to the chagrin of the U. S. Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. Sir Samuel's big try at appeasement came in 1935, when with French Premier Pierre Laval, he arranged a deal to give Benito Mussolini...
With the Cabinet split on a fundamental issue, with more newspapers than ever striking out against the Government, with more M. P.s than ever distrustful of British official policy, there were also more rumors than ever of a change in the Government itself. Former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden still talked of a national Cabinet. Mr. Chamberlain was represented as wanting to have a Laborite in the Government, but the Labor Party wanted no part of the Prime Minister...
Last week 64-year-old Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who has often angered strong Imperialists by failing to come out wholeheartedly for war support for Britain, rose in the Ottawa House of Commons to read a speech on foreign policy. He droned along for 15 minutes...
...answer, which the M. P.s were not told: Assailed by doubts about his speech, Mr. King spent the 45 minutes telephoning London, reading the Foreign Office the whole text, asking whether the promise of aid to Britain if attacked was strong enough. Told that it was, he scurried back and read it to the House...