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This was exactly the type of assurance Adolf Hitler has been giving with respect to Europe. Neville Chamberlain last week had the British Ambassador at Tokyo, Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, demand assurances from the Japanese government that British property in South China be respected...
...London it was presently announced that Sir Robert had received "most specific" assurances. It was also pointed out that the British investment stake in South China is a small fraction of what it is in other parts of China, notably in the Shanghai International Settlement, thus far respected by Japan...
Almost certainly Hitler and Göring think air power will soon have made sea power obsolete, but they know the British Admiralty is full of crusty heroes ready to swear that "By gad, Sir, none of your dashed bombers has ever sunk a modern capital ship and they haven't taken Madrid. The Navy is still the Navy, Sir, and England is still England." In that atmosphere, which seems very favorable to modern Germans, an air pact conceivably may be signed. Its drafters will have to take into consideration first the quantitative air strengths of the great powers...
Brought up in a musical family (his mother was a piano teacher), Sir Henry started his career at the age of ten as deputy organist in a London church. Later he gave recitals up & down the country, conducted opera, spent a period as a singing teacher. In the 44 years since the Promenade Concerts began he has done more conducting than any living man and has probably trained more orchestral players. Out of season he finds time to do wood carvings and carpentry and produce professional-looking landscape paintings. When the concert season is on he becomes a passion...
Last week, as the 44th season of the Promenade Concerts closed, musical Britain turned out in a body to do Sir Henry honor. The occasion: a Jubilee Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, celebrating Sir Henry's 50th anniversary as a conductor. Special trains ran from all parts of England. From Cardiff, Wales, in the midst of England's "distressed areas," came 500 Promgoers. The musicians who played in the concert all gave their services free. They were: London's four leading symphonic orchestras (BBC's, the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Queen...