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...long imminent reshuffle of the Chamberlain Cabinet came this week, hastened by heavy debating pressure upon His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons. Charges that Viscount Swinton as Air Secretary has made a muddle of his end of British Rearmament were hurled even by some M.P.s of the Government's own Conservative Party, by many Liberal and Labor M.P.s...
...these British groups can view with equanimity any other system than that they both should profit from Rearmament to the limit, insist that it be "All British." His Majesty's Government were flooded with complaints from employers and employes all heading up to blaming Air Secretary Viscount Swinton for the British aircraft industry's "muddles and delays...
...type of British aircraft the Air Ministry were accused of having ordered over 6,000 modifications of the original plans they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton...
Secretary of State for Air-Viscount Swinton...
...pick Sir Thomas Inskip to co-ordinate Imperial Defense. At the time of this surprise appointment (TIME. March 23) British wiseacres called it a "typical Baldwin bumble'' and predicted that the Prayer-Book Knight as an Imperial Defender would "outbumble Baldwin." Today Sir Thomas, like Lord Swinton, "misses a great deal of knowledge by his lack of tact," but Mrs. Baldwin is firmly convinced that he is as right as King Edward was wrong and that "character is more important than ability...