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...Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow, Earl of Hopetoun, Viscount Aithrie and Baron Hope sprained his ankle last week. The accident obliged him to cancel all engagements "involving standing or walking." But he was still able to talk, and for many weeks he had promised a most important announcement in his official capacity-Viceroy of India. Last week the lame Lord Linlithgow made his statement. It turned out to be lame...
...British Government this was quite unfunny. Especially serious was the violent death-the Japanese claimed it was "suicide"-of one of the arrested suspects, Reuters Correspondent Melville James Cox (TIME, Aug. 5). Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax sent an invitation for a little conversation around to Ambassador Shigemitsu. Sober Viscount Halifax told the Ambassador that unless the ar rested men were immediately freed, Britain's anger would be great...
Most eminent spokesman for the anti-Chamberlain camp last week was Novelist-Historian H. G. Wells. In the London News Chronicle he also urged the removal of Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, proposed that the whole Foreign Office be reorganized into a small committee of foreign relations, including Churchill, Labor Minister Bevin, senior career diplomatist Sir Robert Vansittart, Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton and old David Lloyd George. His Wellsian appeal to Chamberlain and followers: "Let us not recriminate. It is just because I believe that you are honorable and patriotic men that I implore...
...Kingsley made some staggering demands. To the budget presented three months ago by Sir (now Viscount) John Simon, he added expenditures of ?800,000,000, so that total outlay for the year was estimated at ?3,467,000,000-more than half the entire annual peacetime national income. Against this he presented plans for new revenues of only ?239,000,000, hardly 30% of the increase in expenditure and just about enough to pay for one month of warfare. To get this new income, Sir Kingsley was obliged to ask for new taxes, both direct and hidden. Basic rate...
...week in one more shake-up of her defense command. Brave but inflexible General Sir Edmund Ironside, 60, was eased upstairs with the rank of Field Marshal, to make way for Lieut. General Sir Alan Francis ("Wizard") Brooke, 57, as Commander in Chief of the Home Forces. General the Viscount Gort, Commander in Chief of the B. E. F., unassigned to a new high post since his return from France, was made only Inspecting General of Forces for Training, while to replace Sir Alan as field commander in the south of England, Lieut. General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck...