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...more or less war action were scheduled for consideration by the Government during the Easter recess. Indications were that they would not be nearly so drastic as those in France. If a more intensified Sitzkrieg were on the books, an inner War Cabinet under pat-standing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was in the cards. If blitzkrieging were in order, the Admiralty's pugnacious Winston Churchill was the man for the job. Otherwise, the Government would just rock along under the direct leadership of Hardware Man Chamberlain...
LONDON--New rumors of a pending shakeup in the British cabinet coincided today with the first public criticism of Viscount Halifax an Foreign Secretary...
This week the conflict went beyond peevishness, developed into a first-class row. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano sent to British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax a stiff, formal note, warning that "the coal in question meets an indispensable need in the life and labor of the Italian people," criticizing Britain's coal blockade system it declared the blockade "is of the kind to disturb and compromise economic and political relations . . . between Italy and Great Britain," served notice that Britain would be responsible for "further developments." Next day Britain defiantly announced that it had taken into custody two Italian ships...
Sixty post-debs of '39 and earlier vintages came in brightly colored ball dresses, but the '40 debs wore demure Court gowns of white. Two ventured crinolines, Lady Cecilia Fitzroy, cousin of the Duke of Grafton, Miss Mary Philippa Gary, niece of Viscount Falkland. Since Britain is bent on making this a democratic war, privates in uniform did not have to stay off the dance floor, as in 1914-8, twirled about the Great Room of the Grosvenor on a social par with their officers. With healthy appetites, debs and escorts gobbled large slices of the vast cake...
...Prime Minister defended Viscount Halifax for censoring 44 lines out of a Britain-must-aid-Finland newspaper article by ousted War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha. This was done, explained Mr. Chamberlain, lest any reader think that Mr. Hore-Belisha was writing with "special authority." Two days later in Devonport the ousted Secretary, speaking as an ordinary M.P. to his constituents, spouted what were thought to be his censored lines, virtually called for Allied war on Russia to save Finland...