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...students of the British Prime Minister's "realistic" policy, Mr. Chamberlain's notions were something less than realistic. Neither Germany's Hitler nor Italy's Mussolini showed any interest in the plan; France's Quai d'Orsay remained understandably silent. Unmentioned anywhere were "neutral" Spaniards qualified to run the country...
Mildly irritating at times even to his loyal half-sister-in-law, Lady Austen Chamberlain, widow of the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Austen Chamberlain (see cut), the Prime Minister's mediation talk taxed the patience of Laborites and Liberals. The whole thing was probably best explained by United Press as a gesture designed to appease the rising ire of the British public and released to a pro-Government press for British consumption only...
Liberals and Laborites read into Sir Thomas' statement a threat to conscript labor in wartime. Only recently His Majesty's Loyal Opposition forced Prime Minister Chamberlain to stop toying with the scheme of general registration of all citizens, the first step toward nationwide conscription. "As soon as war is declared the generals and the brass hats will be in charge of the whole resources of the country," howled Laborite Aneurin Bevan last week. Two days later, with His Majesty's Loyal Opposition still peppering Sir Thomas, the Prime Minister himself was forced onto the floor...
Opposition M. P.s saw in this transfer another attempt by Prime Minister Chamberlain to make himself master in his own house, such as his move six months ago in "promoting" influential Sir Robert Vansittart from Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office to the high-sounding but less vital and specially created post of Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Chamberlain is determined to make his own appointments to these permanent, advisory posts. Sartorially correct, 61-year-old Colonel Sir Maurice, dubbed "Sir Maurice the Immaculate." was far closer to previous Prime Ministers David Lloyd George, James Ramsay MacDonald...
Splitting the vacated positions, the Prime Minister last week appointed as Secretary to the Cabinet Edward E. Bridges, civil servant and son of the late Poet Laureate Robert Bridges; as Clerk of the Privy Council Sir Rupert Howorth, former Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet; and as secretary to the powerful Committee of Imperial Defense, Colonel Hastings L. Ismay, heretofore Deputy Secretary...