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...today looms Adolf Hitler in the minds of Europe's statesmen that Der Führer's habit of always picking Saturday as the time suddenly to throw his weight about has caused the Continent's major stock exchanges to remain closed every Saturday-just in case the No.1 Nazi should upset prices...
Another gauge of the Realmleader's bigness this year was the recent scramble of statesmen, as soon as they heard that he was going to convene the Reichstag to make speeches of appeasement, conciliation and even flattery. In thus buttering Der Führer, immaculate British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden led (TIME, Jan. 25). He was followed by French Premier Leon Blum, who as a Socialist and a Jew doubly hates the Nazis. And last week the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, inflexible Neville Chamberlain, who is perhaps to become the next Prime Minister after the Coronation...
...supreme court of the British Commonwealth of Nations is in London and is called the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The entire Privy Council consists of some 300 British statesmen in all by parts their of the sovereign globe who with the have rank been of "P. C." honored (Privy Councilor). Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void...
...short, Canadian statesmen have never yet grappled hard with New Deal actualities, as did President Roosevelt, his Johnsons, Wallaces, Tugwells and Ickeses-partly because it was an Old Dealer who dealt their New Deal, partly because they have been waiting for the Privy Council to tell them where they stood...
That the art of eating has gone the way of the art of glass blowing was made plain by such order lists as the one above which is just part of the menu for a 1468 dinner tendered two English statesmen. Or, if you are still hungry just peruse the following food which required 62 chefs to prepare for a contemporary spread. Six wild bulls, 104 oxen, 400 swine, 1000 mutton, 1200 quail, 304 stags, and 3000 pigs were among the delicate offered to the gathering of 4000. Just what percentage of the 4000 had another little snack at bedtime...