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President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley and Sir John Simon, an appeaser from way back, swelled the chorus, but the strangest note was struck by Sir Francis Lindley, onetime Ambassador to Japan, longtime foe of Soviet Russia, stanch friend of and host to Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Francis told the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs Committee that British prestige would rise if the projected pact with Russia fell through...
...stanch supporter of Appeaser Chamberlain, Sir Nevile's return led to rumors that the British Government was again turning tail and was preparing to lead Ally France into another Munich settlement. From Foreign Office spokesmen in London, however, came the assurance that Sir Nevile took back to Berlin a message from the Chamberlain Government which: 1) advised Führer Hitler not to reject flatly President Roosevelt's appeal, 2) warned that Britain might answer further German aggression with peacetime conscription...
Vengeance. But not everywhere was there unmixed joy. Lines of men and women streamed out of Madrid toward the coast, hoping somehow to escape the clutches of Fascist rule. Thousands of stanch Loyalists who feared for their lives if they remained clamored to board British warships, besieged consulates of neutral powers...
Philadelphia's sick Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was interested in these events. Not only is Bill Leader his stanch political friend, but against the Mayor, his strapped city government, etc., etc. Apex has filed a separate suit for $1,026,793. Charge: they failed to provide adequate police protection...
...stanch Amos 'n' Andy fans this means little more than a slight change in tuning, since CBS and NBC outlets duplicate each other in most important areas. But in the business of radio advertising the changeover was big doings. It indicated that henceforth Campbell Soup's huge outlay for radio advertising time (last year it was $2,279,425) would all be spent with...