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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new "realistic" formula for assuring peace to troubled Europe, namely, negotiation of agreements between nations to remove causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
With events at this crucial stage, Prime Minister Chamberlain moved quickly to save the Franco-Italian agreement from complete discard and to save his own Italian pact from collapse. In Rome British Ambassador Lord Perth called on Foreign Minister Ciano, urged him to continue the talks. In London, the Earl of Plymouth was instructed to call the moribund Committee on Non-intervention into session this week. There Britain will propose that France close her Pyrenees frontier to supplies for a 30-day period, while the committee reaches an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign fighters from both sides. Last week...
From Berlin, as the crisis-packed week came to a close, the Czechs indirectly received another reassurance. Adolf Hitler himself informed sources claimed, had sent anxious British Prime Minister Chamberlain the guarantee that Germany had not the slightest intention of marching into Czechoslovakia at this stage of the game...
...first serious rift between Britain's Big Business and Big Business Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain developed last week when Lord Weir, adviser to the Air Ministry and to the Cabinet Committee of Imperial Defense, resigned both posts. Reason: protest against Prime Minister Chamberlain's ouster of Viscount Swinton as Air Secretary fortnight ago. Lord Swinton was not getting Britain rearmed in the air as fast as the House of Commons thought he should...
...Prime example of the dogmatic spirit is "the relativistic theories of Einstein, which are based on an arbitrary definition of space and time coordinates. . . ." Other examples are theories of wave mechanics in which the electron is "arbitrarily smeared in a large spatial region around the atom" or made to "dance round the atom in an irregular manner...