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...tower-the bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain, Laborites had insisted on placing questions concerning its activities on the Order Paper...
With a Rumanian trade delegation in London also being pressed for wheat by Viscount Swinton's new English Commercial Corporation, the Rumanians did not see how they could promise almost their entire export surplus to the Germans. Well, suggested Trade Negotiator Clodius, Rumania could demobilize 500,000 peasants and raise more. The Reich would even send 6,000 agricultural experts to Rumania to show the peasants...
...Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, has flayed the Keynes Plan as, "Good enough for Hitler's workers-but not good enough for ours." Lord Stamp, Economic Advisor to the Government, is still for "voluntary methods." Because good words have been said for the Plan by Lords Balfour, Swinton and Glentanar, the capricious London Daily Express paradoxically headlines, "Peers Of The Realm Unite! You Have Nothing To Gain But Keynes...
...issue in Great Britain today, even overshadowing the controversy around Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's foreign policy, is the state of the nation's defense preparations. Opposition M. P.s and the anti-Chamberlain Conservative bloc, led by portly, eloquent Winston Churchill, have already blasted from office Viscount Swinton, former Air Secretary, have jarred big, burly Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Coordination of Defense, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and his assistant, Geoffrey Lloyd, in charge of air-raid precautions. The harried Prime Minister realizes that a far-reaching revelation of a breakdown in Britain's defense preparations...
...soothing syrup to spoon out to the Government's air rearmament critics this week, the Air Secretary received assurance last week from Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield-who ended his two-year nonparticipation in air rearmament when Lord Swinton was dropped as Air Secretary month ago-that he will erect a huge airframe plant on the outskirts of Birmingham, designed for mass production of 5,000 planes a year. The factory, expected to be in operation in six months, will turn out Britain's newly developed "interceptor fighters," which will be fitted with Rolls-Royce motors. Running...