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...Britain, rich in bases, is poor in some of the tools of international air transport. Hence the British keenly feel the need for international agreements which will equalize competitors at the postwar starting line. Said Walter Leslie Runciman, head of B.O.A.C.: "After the war you will have victors and neutrals feeling they must have some kind of air transport and if you are not careful you are going to have airline competition between governments with a disarmament-political complex. If that happens the Americans will have all the advantages because they have the planes and the money...
...Treasury as head of the British Civil Service. Munich-time Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, now Lord Simon, Lord Chancellor, nursed through a garrulous House of Lords a bill empowering U.S. military forces in Britain to set up courts with criminal jurisdiction over American troops. Lord Runciman, Munich's advance man in Prague, had dropped out of sight. David (now Viscount) Margesson, then Tory Party ringmaster, now a General Electric director, admitted: "Public opinion demanded there should be changes." In Madrid Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary Munich supporter, welcomed at the British Embassy Foreign Minister...
...Britain sends Runciman mission to Prague...
...scions, from whom she has been divorced for years. In London she was accepted socially by a few, including Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith; later clung on the fringes of Lady Astor's so-called "Cliveden Set." An active intrigante, during the mission to Prague of Viscount Runciman, busy Toffi was present at at least one tea party at which she and an assortment of Germans and Sudetens explained to Lord Runciman the Nazi point of view. That she is now in need of Viscount Rothermere's funds suggests, however, that...
Appointed to perform this job was Ronald Hibbert Cross, M. P., 43, an Old Etonian with a War record in the Lancaster Yeomanry and Royal Flying Corps and a public career closely parallel to that of President Viscount ("Czecho-Slovakia") Runciman of the Board of Trade, for which Mr. Cross has been Parliamentary Secretary. By trade a merchant-banker, six-foot Ronald Cross has before now earned personal preferment as high as Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household in 1937. As lord-master of neutral shipping, he will now be a key war figure, with Viscount Cecil...