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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Punch readers last week saw Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain watching like a pastoral shepherd the cooing of doves of peace and the gamboling of two spring lambs, respectively the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Italy, Lord Perth, and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law (see cut). To a loudly cheering audience in his native Birmingham last week, the Prime Minister predicted that when the Anglo-Italian Treaty which Perth & Ciano have now negotiated in Rome is made public officially "It will be found that it is not the Prime Minister who has been...
...Liberty in Europe is being murdered, and the Prime Minister is the undertaker -waiting to bury the corpse!" cried Orator Arthur Greenwood, presenting Labor's motion. "Mussolini has been tricked over Austria, yet in Mussolini's hour of weakness the British Government has gone to his rescue! . . . The British Government is permitting the Spanish Loyalists to be butchered to make a Roman holiday...
...Prime Minister replied that if His Majesty's Government followed the course desired by Labor "you would have sinking of ships, you would have perhaps naval battles, and a European war would have begun!" Neville Chamberlain insisted that his policy has "met with approval, not only in this country but abroad, with the possible exception of Russia." He refused to call a General Election for "no Government with an ample majority ever went to the country at the demand of such feeble opposition." The House finally supported Chamberlain...
...Medical Association published a survey of sulfanilamide's uses and dangers. But so many new discoveries have occurred that the New England Journal of Medicine had Dr. Maurice A. Schnitker of Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital make a new survey, which it published last fortnight. Its prime points...
When an industry wants to put its best foot forward, it is likely to hire a man with a knack for public relations. This man the newspapers will refer to as TSAR. Prime examples: the cinema industry's Hays, baseball's Landis...