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Showing he intends to himself discharge the functions of Foreign Secretary, so far as the House of Commons is concerned, the Prime Minister last week made permanent his tentative appointment of Viscount Halifax as Foreign Secretary. As a peer, Halifax cannot enter the Commons, but Labor peers taunted Halifax in the House of Lords: "You are afraid of Italy." Asserting that Britain would win any war "as usual" he retorted: "I am not afraid of Italy or any other country...
Vigilant & Firm. Meanwhile Grade A taunts were hurled at the Prime Minister in the House of Commons...
...used threats," Neville Chamberlain explained that last year he "put aside ordinary diplomatic formalities" and began exchanging personal communications with Premier Mussolini. These have now led to "the Italian Government's acceptance of the British Formula concerning the withdrawal of foreign volunteers" from Spain. Under this formula the Prime Minister continued: "When a certain proportion of volunteers on both sides have been withdrawn, there should be granted belligerent rights [to Rightists and Leftists alike...
...Land to the People!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, acting through the Viceregal Government at New Delhi and the British provincial governors in India, has been quietly active against Saint Gandhi & Co. for several months. On April 1, 1937 the provinces of British India came under the new Indian Constitution, which was chiefly the work of Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, June 29, 1936). It had been planned that on April 1, 1938 the Indian states which are still ruled by native princes should enter, under the Constitution, into an All-India Federation, and next winter George VI was to have been...
...manage last week to keep the Communist, Socialist and moderate Left supporters of his Cabinet from holding their noses. But while they were doing so. he got them to swallow the general principle of British-German-French-Italian negotiation for a Four-Power Pact, envisioned by the British Prime Minister . The swallowing occurred at a session of the Chamber of Deputies which upheld Premier Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...