Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...danger to all Europe that we are in such a position!" This looked like the opening move in the Conservative Party plan to scare British voters into giving them a majority at the next general election. It looked even more like it when Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin took the floor for the National Government, replying to Mr. Churchill. ''We believe." rumbled Mr. Baldwin, "that Germany is in the course of expansion of her long-service army of 100,000 men into a short-service, peacetime army of 300,000 men in flat violation of the Treaty...
...players whom Coach Harry Cowles sends into action at 2.30 o'clock are: Germain G. Glidden '36, No. 1; E. Rotan Sargent '36, No. 2; Stanley G. Haskins '35 (Capt.), No. 3; Huntington Thom '35, No. 4; and John B. Wilkinson...
...present British administration is one of the most conservative of recent years. Stanley Baldwin and Noville Chamberlain dominate Parliament, backed by a docile majority. Those men could easily place a member of their own party in the premier's office. Evidently, however, they feel that Mr. MacDonald lends a non-partisan aura to their rule without, interfering in any way with its program. Why he accepts this uninspired position is not so easily arrived at. Probably in 1929 he felt that a national emergency made compromise a patriotic duty. Since then the subtle influences of Mayfair and old age have...
...naval parity should Paris ever make it. Meanwhile the U. S. and Britain publicly embraced each other in a series of fervent hands-across-the-sea declarations by Secretary Cordell Hull, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham and Lord President of the Council Stanley Baldwin who ringingly declared at Glasgow: "As far as this country is concerned, so long as I have a responsible position in His Majesty's Government, never will I sanction the British Navy's being used in any war anywhere until I know what the United States of America...
Declaring even this too sweeping, "concession" to Kipling's lesser breeds without the law, London's super-Tory Morning Post alarmed that the Linlithgow Report "confirms the worst fears of the Conservatives of the country." On Dec. 4 moderate Conservative Stanley Baldwin will stake his position as Leader of the Party before its Central Council on the Linlithgow Report. He threatened last week to resign if defeated by die-hards Winston Churchill...