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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealt out by Viscount Halifax. Quietly, this lean, cadaverous British statesman laid the secret demands which Adolf Hitler and Herman Wilhelm Goring recently made to him (TIME. Nov. 29) face up before the French last week, in the presence of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and Sir Robert Vansittart, who is in London the opposite number to Alexis...
...British were by implication asking the French to enter into what David Lloyd George was to call later last week a "thieves' bargain." The diplomatic finesse of M. Léger was meanwhile shown when M. Chautemps and M. Delbos blandly told Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Eden and Sir Robert in effect that France was willing to go just as far in this matter as Britain-whereupon what had seemed to be British ardor to get action last week on behalf of Germany's scheme rapidly cooled, according to best posted London correspondents...
Great sport was made in the House of Commons last week by humorist A. P. Herbert, M. P. of the Population Bill introduced by Minister of Health Sir Kingsley Wood. According to Sir Kingsley, one of the "Big Six" of the Cabinet (Chamberlain, Hoare, Simon, Hailsham, Inskip & Wood), the United Kingdom is ceasing at such an alarming rate to bear children that its population will have dropped from 44,000,000 to 5,000,000 in 100 years...
...Dear Sir...
...Died. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, 79, Hindu physicist and botanist; of a heart attack; at Giridih, India. Famed for his assertion that plants have hearts, nerves, emotions, intellections, he demonstrated by experiment that every stimulus-light, electric shock, alcohol, drugs-affects plants as well as animals...