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...Last week, in a House of Lords debate, smooth, grim Lord Vansittart restated his familiar view that all Germans are accomplices and that, whatever happens to them as individuals, Germany should be destroyed "utterly and forever as a military power." Winston Churchill's grey advocate and Lord Chancellor, Viscount Simon, promptly made it clear that on this issue the British Government has other views. Said Viscount Simon: "I can only say now in plain terms on behalf of the Government that we agree with Premier Stalin-first, that the Hitlerite state can and should be destroyed, and second, that...
...significant as its reception. Lord Trenchard criticized Lord Beaverbrook for arousing the British people, who could not be told the true facts just now. The Earl of Listowel accused the Beaver of doing "a positive disservice to the country" by bringing the matter up at this juncture. Viscount Simon said that the discussion was "absolutely dangerous," called the term second front a "catchpenny phrase," based on ill-informed clamor...
Gloom & Quibbles. This tepid resolve was miles behind the temper of the British people. It came little nearer to satisfying the House, including a sizable number of Churchill Conservatives. Forty Tories, led by handsome Viscount Hinchingbrooke M.P., demanded that a Ministry of Social Security be established at once. Liberal insurgents headed by gaunt, good Wilfrid Roberts similarly wanted a new ministry and "earliest possible legislation." Angry Laborites denounced the Government's policy, urged "reconsideration of that policy with a view to the early implementation of the Plan...
Britain's No. 1 philanthropist, Viscount Nuffield, 65, complained some five years ago that his good works had caused him five times as much trouble as his business. Having given away some $60,000,000 he swore he would give no more. But last week he headed into more trouble: for scientific and medical research, public health, social studies, and "the care and comfort of aged people" he created a $40,000,000 trust fund. Peacetime automaker (Morris, Wolseley), Lord Nuffield is now one of Britain's main armorers, also one of her most unreconstructed individualists. Chief financial...
...West 42nd St., Manhattan) are 1) "to begin at once preparation for a world organization," 2) to aid Europe's Underground, 3) to block agents and activities of the Axis in Latin America. Honorary board (chairman: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) includes Mayor LaGuardia, Raymond Gram Swing, Harold Ickes, Viscount Cecil, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...