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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombings continued throughout the week and several more attempts, all unsuccessful, were made to damage Britain's vital public services. On the west coast of Eire, an abortive attempt was made to damage a hotel in Tralee where bespectacled, 25-year-old Francis Chamberlain, only son of the Prime Minister, was on holiday. Most Britons had forgotten that the Chamberlains had a son; British picture agencies, deluged with requests for his photograph had none. Young Chamberlain has been employed for a year as a $25-a-week apprentice at the Witton plant of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., where...
...unmoved. Earlier in Geneva, he had turned a deaf ear, to pleadings for help from Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, of the Loyalist Government. As the lengthy debate neared its end, M. Bonnet was expected to play his trump card: an assurance by Dictator Mussolini, given to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in Rome fortnight ago, that as soon as Generalissimo Franco won the war, Italian troops would leave Spain. Since Il Duce has often found it convenient to forget his solemn pledges, this argument was not calculated to impress the French Left. The Government was slated...
...British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain promptly turned down a request from Opposition Laborite Leader Clement R. Attlee to call Parliament immediately to reconsider British non-intervention policy. The Prime Minister declared any change in non-intervention would merely "prolong...
...more familiar to Europeans than Anthony Eden's famed black Homburg is British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's black, rolled umbrella. Last week a newshawk from the London Daily Express sought out the salesman from whom Mr. Chamberlain bought it. With characteristic British clarity, the salesman described it: "It's what one might call a Rolls-Royce of an umbrella, natty but quiet, solid but a light dasher. The sort of umbrella which becomes part...
Pius XI, head of the Roman Catholic Church, last week received Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain. Fresh from visits with Benito Mussolini (see p. 18), Mr. Chamberlain was received with private pomp in the Vatican. What the Pope and the Prime Minister said in their half-hour chat remained officially undisclosed. Unofficially the Pontiff was reported to have pressed on the Prime Minister documents dealing with the destruction of Catholic lives and property in Loyalist Spain, and declared that, "as a means of restoring Christianity" to Spain, the Holy See put its hopes in a Franco victory. Mr. Chamberlain...