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Spain and Ethiopia. The vote of confidence secured by Neville Chamberlain specifically covered his announced intention to declare in force the Italo-British treaty of last April. This instrument recognizes the Ethiopian conquest on the condition that "substantial" numbers of Italian troops are withdrawn from Spain. Spain recently said good-by to 10,000 Italians. There are still some 40,000 Italians fighting for General Franco, but Mr. Chamberlain told the House last week...
...House of Commons session at which these policies were nailed to the Empire mast agreed with New York Times London Bureau Manager Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. that "Mr. Chamberlain won one of his easiest victories. . . . [His] majority of 207 tonight was far bigger than his margin of 162 in the vote of confidence that followed Mr. Eden's resignation eight months...
...year. Furthermore, had a Hyde Park soap-boxer, any British newspaper publisher or even any member of Parliament revealed such a horrendous condition, he would have been clapped in jail under the Official Secrets Act. What happened to Mr. Hore-Belisha was nothing. His Government immediately got the second vote of confidence in two days (355-to-130), and the War Secretary prepared to send a "simple memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future. Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, whose duties are to be those of a minister for civilian defense, blamed the whole...
Meanwhile the Premier seemed to have largely wasted in irresolution the decree powers which he might have used. The overwhelming vote of confidence in his foreign policy which he received after his return from Munich still stood, however. Meetings last week of the General Councils in all French districts ended in nearly all cases with senators, deputies and mayors voting approval of the Government's foreign and internal policies. Munich is over the French Chamber dam, but the Premier will be savagely attacked when the Chamber reconvenes for his final break at Marseille with the Communists and for what...
This week Daytonians were to vote for the seventh time on a proposed special 2-mill levy. Even should Dayton's chastened citizens vote for this tax, however, they will still have to do some deep thinking to find a way to reopen their schools before Christmas, for the new funds will not be available until next year...