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Only mildly sensational among these Cabinet shifts made as the Prime Minister prepared to go before the reassembled House of Commons this week, was the giving of a post to "Ruthless" Sir John Anderson who, when Governor of Bengal, put the fear of the Raj into its notorious political thugs and terrorists. Drastic Sir John was given a velvet Cabinet sinecure, Lord Privy Seal, but is supposed to have been put in to ginger up, by his personal influence, Sir Thomas Inskip. the somnolent Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defense...
World War or Bluff? In a broadcast to U. S. listeners the British Foreign Secretary, long, lean Viscount Halifax, said last week of Munich: "My own conscience is clear. . . . The sufferings of Czechoslovakia would have been far greater had we and they acted otherwise. . . . The Government . . . and the Prime Minister . . . acted rightly...
Lord Halifax thus argued from the premise that Germany would actually have fought if Munich had not given Hitler what he demanded - a major premise now challenged by critics of the Prime Minister, who insist that "Hitler was only bluffing. There was no real danger of war." Last week Franklin Roosevelt said of Munich in the course of his remarks on the Dies Committee (see p. 7): "Three weeks ago the civilized world was threatened by the immediate outbreak of a world war. Cool heads pleaded for the continuance of negotiations. People may properly differ as to the result...
...Duke & Duchess of Gloucester are now touring in British Africa. Neville Chamberlain, in close collaboration with the Dominion Prime Ministers, is preparing to play every Empire drawing card from Kents to Quints. Dr. Dafoe announced last week that the five Wards of the King will be taught how to curtsy to royalty before Their Majesties arrive next Spring...
...Canadian Prime Minister King was on a West Indies holiday last week, and Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir announced after the Prime Minister's return that a committee headed by Mr. King will begin to draft an itinerary to be followed by Their Majesties in North America...