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Jews have always read this Balfour Declaration one way, Arabs have always read it the opposite way, and among neutral statesmen opinion has long been unanimous that the late Lord Balfour perpetrated one of history's most monstrous ambiguities, a weasel which has drenched Palestine in strife for 20 years. This week neutral opinion had not yet crystallized, but widely His Majesty's Government was beginning to receive credit for honest efforts to simply cut with one harsh stroke the Palestine Knot...
Adolf Hitler had one of his better tantrums last week. Once more the pudgy but intuitive little Führer put the fear of Wotan into baffled British statesmen, and once more France was a prey to apprehensive fury as the Berlin-Rome Axis...
...NEVILLE BOSSES THE CABINET: MINISTERS MUST REPORT DAILY" headlined the Referee, with considerable truth, as certain statesmen in Whitehall admitted off the record to friends this week. "Mr. Neville Chamberlain," continued the Referee, "is running the Cabinet as though it were a board meeting with himself as Managing Director of Britain Ltd. And the Cabinet members don't like...
...called to the bar at the age of 19. Son of an established Liberal political family, he became Mayor of Tours after the War, slipped into his first Cabinet post under Herriot in 1924. On two subsequent occasions he was Premier for short periods, thrust forward by more prominent statesmen as a safe Middle-of-the-Roader. now again finds himself Premier for much the same reason...
...British statesmen have been increasingly impressed by Leon Blum and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos as two Frenchmen singularly ready to hitch their foreign policy to the apron strings of Downing Street. Last week French fiscal policy had been hitched, temporarily at least, to the apron strings of the Old Lady of Thread-needle Street, pending the arrival of Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. This nimble native of Dordogne, by far the ablest player of Basque pelota in the new Cabinet, will have his work cut out for him to get French finances in shape, but he seemed certain of broad cooperation...