Word: pro-british
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...Pro-British, Anti-British...
...wish to hamper the British war effort because the collapse of Britain would make India-like French Indo-China-the prey of the land-grabbing dictators. Meeting last week at Poona, the Indian National Congress Committee took cognizance of a tight situation when it adopted an anti-war but pro-British policy, elected as its leader by 192 to 7 votes the only man in India sufficiently astute to reconcile these two conflicting views-Mahatma Gandhi...
Zanzibar (Universal), from the studio which recently gave the world Green Hell, is one of the funniest pictures ever made in all seriousness. Fun begins when Lola Lane (a lion huntress) becomes involved in a struggle to the death between the British Empire and Eduardo Ciannelli. Miss Lane is pro-British. She and Mr. Ciannelli both have orders to steal the skull of a former African chief, Mkwawa (pronounced McVava...
Early this month the Nazi press in Germany trained its biggest propaganda guns on Foreign Minister Sandier, accusing him, among other things, of "pro-British" actions. But that was not what removed him. Long had Foreign Minister Sandier advocated fortifying, with Finnish cooperation, the strategic Aland Islands guarding the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. He especially urged it when Russia began her diplomatic pressure on Finland. Moreover, Mr. Sandier was the spokesman of those friends of Finland who believed that Scandinavian neutrality was indivisible...
...political front Sweden showed signs of toughening her stand against both Germany and Russia. At week's end Foreign Minister Sandier, whose head has been demanded by both countries because of his "pro-British policies," still carried his portfolio. All but 50 members walked out of the Chamber of Deputies when a Communist got up to speak. Named active commander in chief of all Sweden's armed forces was 62-year-old Lieut. General Olof Gerhard Thörnell, an expert on Europe's armies, who announced: "The defense of . . . the Fatherland puts everything else...