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...MacDonald and a bristling array of Admiralty, Air Force and Army chiefs. In papers close to the Admiralty a, great uproar was made about Britain's Mediterranean base at Malta being now so weak as to be vulnerable to Italian air attack. Amid that utter fog which British statesmen so often find useful in masking their intentions, the Government created a sensation by announcing that several units of the Mediterranean fleet which went home for King George's Jubilee Review were preparing to steam back to their stations ominously led, "a week early," by the aircraft carrier Furious...
Since British statesmen are well known to doubt almost everything they read in the papers,* Captain Eden's curiosity would have been natural, had he not recently popped the question to Il Duce in Rome and been officially answered (TIME, July 1 & 8). Previously in Rome, Premier Laval had gone even farther, making with Premier Mussolini a pact in which France gave Italy a "free hand" against Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 14 & 21) in return for Italian support at the subsequent Stresa Conference on German rearmament. Thus last week Mr. Eden and Premier Laval knew they were asking Baron Aloisi...
...busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo. the ''Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. For months the Chinese statesmen who thus met last week have been playing Japan's game. Each fears sudden Death at the hands of some patriotic Chinese, and the purpose of their conference was simply to decide whether there is really any game except Japan's that they can profitably play...
Decision to Struggle. Meanwhile Dictator Mussolini continued in cold blood to make efficient preparations last week for his Ethiopia-snatching war, thus giving other statesmen every opportunity to prove their humanitarianism by trying to stop him. II Duce went to the length of publicly demonstrating a compound produced by Italian chemists to be strewn by Italian airplanes on the soil of Ethiopia to sear and burn the proverbially bare feet of Emperor Power of Trinity's savage troops. At the demonstration a photographer trod on the stuff, was picked up by Italian soldiers and rushed to a watering trough...
...Corp. to do full justice to the great issue What Is An Englishman? Employed to answer was brilliant Harold Nicolson, son of Edward VII's late great Ambassador to St. Petersburg, Sir Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. Son Nicolson today is perhaps the Empire's most entertaining biographer of statesmen recently deceased, from his own father to Lord Curzon. Broadcast...