Word: prime
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...read in Italian newspapers last fortnight. Rome's La Tribuna openly boasted of Italian planes from Italian-held Majorca sinking 18 ships in 19 days. Rome's Giornale d'Italia likewise boasted five foreign ships bombed by Italian planes. Regardless of this, Britain's "realistic" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is Italy's most potent English friend. On the Anglo-Italian agreement of last April-an agreement not to be implemented until Italy withdraws her forces from Rightist Spain-is staked Neville Chamberlain's political life. That life has become closer & closer to jeopardy recently...
...Prime political issue in Great Britain today, even overshadowing the controversy around Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's foreign policy, is the state of the nation's defense preparations. Opposition M. P.s and the anti-Chamberlain Conservative bloc, led by portly, eloquent Winston Churchill, have already blasted from office Viscount Swinton, former Air Secretary, have jarred big, burly Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Coordination of Defense, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and his assistant, Geoffrey Lloyd, in charge of air-raid precautions. The harried Prime Minister realizes that a far-reaching revelation of a breakdown in Britain...
Shaggy-maned Liberal David Lloyd George leaped to the attack. Mr. Chamberlain and his Cabinet members were carrying on "like a bevy of maiden aunts who had fallen among buccaneers," snorted the Wartime Prime Minister. "I should have taken very strong action if I had been Prime Minister. The airplanes which attacked British ships came from the Italian front in the Balearic Islands. I would first of all have seen these air-dromes destroyed until they stopped sending bombing planes against our ships. If Gladstone, Campbell-Bannerman, or Asquith had behaved as the Prime Minister has done they would have...
...sunk by Rightist Generalissimo Franco's air force in the last two months. Making political capital out of British resentment to these attacks, Opposition forces last week demanded that the Chamberlain Government employ naval protection for British merchantmen venturing into Leftist Spam's ports. Bluntly, the Prime Minister replied: to bring the British navy into play would mean active intervention in the conflict, and his Government were determined not to risk the general European war which might result. Furthermore, Mr. Chamberlain admitted, almost casually, "While the war lasts we must expect a succession of these incidents...
Following day, the harried Prime Minister was again forced on the floor to defend his stand. Practically every sentence he uttered was interrupted by jeers and catcalls from Opposition benches. "You are encouraging Franco to murder British seamen," taunted a man in the gallery. Attendants hustled him through the door but a second, then a third protestant took...