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...director of Barclays Bank until 1939 and once a Tory M.P. himself, has two brothers, a son, and a nephew on Conservative benches, while his son-in-law's brother-in-law is a Cabinet minister, and his brother-in-law's brother-in-law, the same Viscount Wolmer, has represented Aldershot for 21 years...
...Conservative Party members who give Prime Minister Chamberlain his majority, crisis after crisis. So are two of his brothers-in-law. So is his wife's brother-in-law and the ex-husband of another of her sisters. So are the husbands of three of her first cousins. Viscount Wolmer, another Tory M.P., is distantly related to him-the Viscount's father married Lord Balniel's wife's cousin's aunt-as are at least four more Tory M.P.s-Major Oscar Guest, Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, their nephew, Ivor and Minister of Transport Captain...
...firms (including armaments) account for 59 Tory M.P.s holding 109 directorships, giving heavy industry the heaviest representation among Conservatives in Parliament. Sir Alfred Beit, descendant of diamond-mining South African pioneers, is a director of airplane-manufacturing firms as well as of an African railway. Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, Viscount Wimborne's brother, is a director of the $75,000,000 Guest, Keen & Nettlefold's iron, steel and coal company, of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries with a capacity of 20,000,000 tons annually. The Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery is a director of Cammell Laird...
...Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax made an address to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a body set up during the Paris Peace Conference for the study of contemporary diplomacy. The British press unanimously hailed the speech as the truest expression of British opinion ever made by a member of the Chamberlain Government: "What is now fully and universally accepted in this country, but what may not even yet be as well understood elsewhere, is that in the event of further aggression we are resolved to use at once the whole of our strength in fulfillment of our pledges to resist...
Purred he at a dinner given for appeasing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax by London's ultra-Tory 1900 Club: Lord Halifax "is an Englishman, a fox hunter and a friend." For the Government's present policies he now wanted nothing so much as "a united Party, a united Nation and a united Empire." He even did a little appeasing himself. "Not a single element representative of the British nation," said he, "would support for a moment designs against the peace and safety of the Reich and its legitimate prospects of growth and expansion...