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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep Britain's colossal rush-Rearmament program (TIME, March 30 et seq.) on schedule is Sir Thomas' awful responsibility and last week some M.P.'s hurled in his face that "Rearmament is two years behind!" A great churchman, Sir Thomas reprovingly reminded everyone that Britain is firm in her adherence to the principles of Christ. There were some gasps when Sir Thomas went so far as to say, "Rearmament is not the Government's objective!" but he got away with it. Finally he admitted to the House with suave authority that the British Rearmament program...
First Lord of the British Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare made it perfectly clear to the House that these five human barnacles of His Majesty's Navy had been scraped off without ceremony, sympathy or public trial. Said Sir Samuel: "His Majesty's Government would have preferred to put charges to the men, but that would have betrayed and therefore made useless the secret service of His Majesty's Government. The evidence has been checked and counterchecked many ways, finally by a committee of high civil servants...
Indirectly Sir Samuel implied that the Moscow Comintern was behind this naval sabotage and in retort the House's lone Communist was loud in denying that the British Communist Party would ever take inhumane steps against the British Royal Navy such that "seamen might drown!'' Sabotage by British Reds, he insisted, is purely political...
Strike-badgered General Motors scarcely had time to notice this week that a Scottish member of its board, hearty Sir Harry Duncan McGowan, was raised to the peerage as a Baron by His Majesty King George VI, who released last week his first Honors List. Sir Harry, easily the biggest Briton on the list, was knighted in 1918 for putting through efficient mergers of munitions firms. He has long been rated "the highest salaried industrialist in Great Britain," a key figure in Rearmament today, and is Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries...
...with the elevation last week of Juliet, Lady Williams to the rank of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author Hall Caine, and Percy Malcolm Stewart, who lately accompanied Edward VIII on his visit to South Wales (TIME...