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...panic atmosphere of London scared U. S. citizens found in Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy an envoy who flung his dynamic energies without reserve into the job of getting them home as fast as possible. During the panic period Mr. Kennedy was not perhaps quite as close to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was to Premier Edouard Daladier, but he unquestionably saw the crisis from the inside. Last week he spoke his mind at the annual Trafalgar Day Dinner of Britain's Navy League while other U. S. crisis-insiders continued...
Digesting these signs and portents, the Prime Minister convened his Cabinet- with two vacancies-and began to chart the Speech from the Throne to be delivered November 8. This is the annual state-of-the-nation speech of His Majesty's Government, and since His Majesty's Government have vital interests in every part of the world, it behooved Mr. Chamberlain to look about him far & wide...
...London Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, meanwhile had conferred on the Palestine mess with Foreign Minister Seyyid Tawfik al Suwaidi of Iraq, an Arab country which has done more than its part in fanning the Palestine fire. In a Cabinet session Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain discussed the peril of the Near Eastern civil war to the Empire's lifeline to India. Strong were the indications that Britain would shortly give in to Arab demands that Jewish immigration be stopped and that the population be stabilized at 400,000 Jews, 900,000 Arabs...
Ulster*-which became officially Northern Ireland when the rest of the island became the Irish Free State, now Eire-was recently shocked: from London came reports that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had agreed to discuss with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera whether the people of Ulster should now decide by plebiscite whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or join Eire. Last week Ulster was flabbergasted when tall, teacher-ish Eamon de Valera suddenly announced at Dublin that his demands go much beyond a plebiscite...
...short, the United Kingdom, blackmailed from Dublin, "must" simply hand over Ulster to Eire, according to Eamon de Valera, who last week made not the slightest attempt to spare British feelings. The Prime Minister of Eire, however, did seek to soothe Ulstermen over the head of its Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon of Northern Ireland...