Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Hore-Belisha hurriedly dumped the case in the lap of the Prime Minister, who advised action by Britain's Attorney-General, Sir Donald Somervell. Early last week the Attorney-General informed Sandys that unless he revealed the source of his information, the Official Secrets Act would be applied, making him liable to a two-year prison sentence. Sandys refused. The Army Council then created a three-man board of inquiry, headed by General Sir Edmund Ironside, governor and commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, which promptly summoned the M. P. to appear for trial...
...While Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Government last week had its hands full defending Britain's domestic air defenses, from another quarter it was questioned on the security of nothing less than "The Rock'' itself. Was the Prime Minister aware, asked Her Grace the Duchess of Atholl, Conservative M. P., that Spanish Rightist Generalissimo Franco, with Italian and German aid, has so fortified the Spanish seacoast overlooking Gibraltar as to make this keystone of empire practically worthless...
...England. Last April she resigned as Government whip, now votes against Mr. Chamberlain as an Independent Conservative. In the last year she has bustled down to Leftist territory, gleaned enough material to write a book,* with a few items left over to toss last week at the harried Prime Minister...
...trying a week as last the Duchess' charges, which she phrased as a formal question, would have elicited the usual day-later answer from the Prime Minister, but by next day the Sandys storm had swept over the House, burying the Duchess' question beneath...
Five years ago Cartoonist Low complained that he did not have an opportunity to do justice to ''the vulture glare in Mr. Neville Chamberlain's eye." Since that time Mr. Chamberlain has become Prime Minister, and it is hard to see how he could have undertaken policies more offensive to David Low than those he has followed. How offended Low has been was revealed last week when copies of his latest book of cartoons- reached the U. S. from London. A collection of 146 drawings chosen from his contributions to the London Evening Standard, the book contained...