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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced war aim of Great Britain is to eradicate "Hitlerism" surprised those who had heard him on other occasions criticize the British Government for countenancing aggression in Manchukuo, Abyssinia, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia. While some M.P.s, many of them Tories, were known to feel that peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came near to suggesting that peace talk at such a time was the next thing to treason, the white-haired...
...physicians-but last week even laundry soap was hard to get. Housewives were advised to soak potato peelings in water, use the resulting mess as soap. Discovery that cellulose, used in making explosives, can be produced from discarded potato tops was announced in Berlin last week, caused the price of potato tops, hitherto not marketed but thrown away, to rise in Germany...
...Britain promised India eventual dominion status. When India did not get it fervent Leftist intellectuals were vociferous in exclaiming "Never Again!" The big question last week was whether Nationalist India would or would not support the British war, and how much independence Britain would pay as the price of that support...
...dozen newsmen met in the Great Room of London's War Office one afternoon last week, peered solemnly up at walls hung with the colors of glorious regiments. Some, like Edward Angly and Walter Duranty, were correspondents for U. S. newspapers and wire services abroad. Others, like Ward Price, represented the press of Britain and her Empire. They had gathered to meet plump, fawn-faced Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State...
...Walter Chrysler, who had left the presidency of Buick ($500,000 a year) to retire at 44 from an industry that wouldn't let him quit, who had later founded blazing Chrysler Corp. on the ashes of the dying Maxwell-Chalmers fire, had agreed to buy Dodge. The price suited Walter Chrysler, right down to the ground: $170,000,000 in new Chrysler stock. Without turning over a penny of cash Chrysler Corp. had taken over all the floor space and forge and foundry facilities it needed to drive from No. 5 in the industry...