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Chaotic terror in Palestine-politely called "serious deterioration" by British statesmen-moved U.S. bigwigs last week far more than Czechoslovakia's unhappy fate did three weeks ago. Secretary of State Cordell Hull promised to consult Britain on Palestine's future...
...Prime Minister thus occupied himself, the Empire had opportunity to pass judgment on how the House of Chamberlain has served it politically for more than 60 years. Each of three outstanding Chamberlain Statesmen has been not the first aristocrat, not the first proletarian, but perhaps the first progressive Middle-Class leader of his time. Father Joseph ("Old Joe") Chamberlain who died of a stroke at 77 in 1914; Elder Son Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., who died of a stroke at 73 last year; and Half-Brother Neville Chamberlain, who is 69-each of these three, after years of experience...
...Ankara statesmen, however, did not appear to have slipped into the noose of Nazidom. Cynical neutrals figured that Turkey and the Balkan States are now delightedly inviting bids from the democracies and the totalitarian states, with not. even the azure skies of the Near East as the limit in a game of dishing out money which the richer democracies should be able...
Perhaps never before have statesmen of great powers negotiated so expeditiously. As fast as the Big Four agreed upon a basic point, their secretaries took this to an adjoining room, where it was dealt with by general staff officers and legal experts, ironing out all details...
...British statesmen were concerned this week because Adolf Hitler had let four days go by without replying to Franklin Roosevelt's second appeal for peace (see above), especially since in Berlin a high Nazi had remarked: "Our Führer took cognizance of the American President's reply to his yesterday's telegram, but no answer is likely to be forthcoming, else there will be no end of the messaging back and forth...