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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain took a firm grip on his coat lapels and launched into a comprehensive review of foreign policy in the last scheduled foreign policy debate before Parliament adjourns this week for three months. Besides discussing the dispute with Japan and the prospects of an alliance with Russia he generalized on the state of the world. Unlike 1938, when he was optimistic, Mr. Chamberlain this week found it "difficult to see" how the world armament race could be solved except "by war itself." But he hoped that a way might yet be found...
Biggest argument of Tory M.P. is that Great Britain's democracy is threatened by this concentration of family, political and economic power. More impressive than its argument, however, is its roll call of big British businessmen who are also members of Parliament. Examples...
Lord Balniel, 38, is the eldest son and heir of the 27th Earl of Crawford. He is a director of the Bank-of-England-controlled $28,000,000 Lancashire Steel Corp., Ltd. He is a member of Parliament, one of 415 Conservative Party members who give Prime Minister Chamberlain his majority, crisis after crisis. So are two of his brothers-in-law. So is his wife's brother-in-law and the ex-husband of another of her sisters. So are the husbands of three of her first cousins. Viscount Wolmer, another Tory M.P., is distantly related...
...could do, but even his own party was lukewarm in its support. Last week it was Dr. Colijn's turn again, and he finally produced a Cabinet of hoary oldsters, former Cabinet members and long-pensioned colonial officials. The new Government represents but a small section of Parliament and could be overthrown any time the Socialists and Catholics vote together against it. After being without a Cabinet for a month, Dutchmen hope the opposition will exercise discretion until this summer's critical days are over...
...Parliament Prime Minister Chamberlain denied that this was a change in policy. He declared emphatically that future discussions "will be confined to local issues at Tientsin" and Britain would not abandon her support of Chinese currency or right to grant credits to China. Again the Japanese thought otherwise...