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...Nicolson, J. B. S. Haldane, Novelist Rose Macaulay, Editor Basil Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain's and Halifax's "failures" had embarrassed his committee colleagues.) Their Declaration drafted, they will pass it along to a group of international lawyers for checking, then try to sell...
...hours after the train was due at Waterloo Station. LONDON TRAINS MISSING, SCOTTISH TRAINS LOST screamed newspaper headlines. At Euston Station three trains from the north failed to turn up for more than a day. Two main lines to Scotland did not function for days. Viscount Home, chairman of Great Westtern Railway, and 300 other passengers spent two days and a night in cold, bedless coaches. Up in Scotland 400 travelers were stranded at isolated Crawford, on Beattock Moor, in Lanarkshire. An inn proprietor put them up, rationed her small supply of food, then four days later frantically telephoned...
...shake-up in the Royal Air Force in France. Until the resignation of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's Air Force in France was divided into: 1) Army Cooperation units under Vice Marshal C. H. B. Blount, who took orders from the Army's General the Viscount Gort; 2) Advanced Striking Force under Vice Marshal Patrick Playfair, who was responsible to R. A. F. headquarters in London. Last week all were united under Air Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, responsible only to Sir Cyril Newall, Britain's air chief...
...reciprocate the honors bestowed by King George VI when he visited the front before Christmas, France's Generalissimo Maurice Gamelin rode his special train to the town where Great Britain's General the Viscount Gort has his chateau-headquarters. With crack detachments of the Welsh Guards and 8th French Zouaves looking on, the bantam Generalissimo stood on tiptoe, lifted his stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned...
...only one warship last week suffered: the British destroyer Viscount reportedly hit a mine. Meanwhile the week's total tonnage sunk (15,292) was the second lightest of the war to date. The week's biggest sea news was announced officially by the French Admiralty: that Germany is constructing a fleet of 150-ton submarines, which can be turned out much faster than 500-to 740-ton U-boats, and will require only 20 officers & men instead of 35 to 40. These new ships, said France, would be able to cruise only four or five days, but there...