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Untidy Premier Daladier, who rolls his own cigarets and always has tobacco crumbs in the creases of his suits, last week left Paris with Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet by special plane for Croydon. There he was met by elegant British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax whose cadaverous visage for once beamed. This same Halifax few months ago visited and conferred at length with Hitler, afterwards was reported by close friends shocked and grieved when Germany absorbed Austria. Whether or not events in Austria have taught Lord Halifax things he did not know about Germans, the conference at No. 10 Downing Street...
...neither of these British groups can view with equanimity any other system than that they both should profit from Rearmament to the limit, insist that it be "All British." His Majesty's Government were flooded with complaints from employers and employes all heading up to blaming Air Secretary Viscount Swinton for the British aircraft industry's "muddles and delays...
...they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton is stoutly defended by the leading journal of British sky-fighters, The Aeroplane. This frankly pro-German and most outspoken paper...
...Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Halifax, once Viceroy of India, regaled the House of Lords last week with this...
...Died. Viscount St. Davids, 77, financier; in London. His severe criticism of a reorganization of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., proposed by the late Lord Kylsant (his brother and the company's chairman), was followed by an investigation which resulted in Lord Kylsant's being imprisoned for issuing false financial reports...