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...approach" to the Soviet Union, that two days earlier Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax had had an important talk with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky. Though this discussion was confined to trade problems, Russia's growing fear of German military might led London to speculate on "an improvement of Anglo-Russian relations." ∧ The R. A. F.'s gallant, aggressive action throughout the week (see p. 27) showed that the new Prime Minister was carrying the war to Germany as the Government of Prirne Minister Chamberlain had never dared...
...Citrine agreed to a proposal by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon that pay rises in Britain be stopped. These things caused the London Daily Worker to publish a series of articles accusing Sir Walter and his colleagues of "plotting with the French Citrines to bring millions of Anglo-French Trade Unionists behind the Anglo-French imperialist war machine." In the course of the articles the Worker's bush-browed crack writer, Ben Francis, called Sir Walter & friends such names as "lickspittles" and industrialists' "lackeys" who would "do down" the British workingman. The Worker was sued...
Last week in Washington the Anglo-French Purchasing Board released figures that put aviation indisputably at the head of the war-baby class. To U. S. aircraft and engine manufacturers had gone recent and new orders of more than $200,000,000. for something like 2,450 planes, 3,200 engines. Total of all U. S. aircraft pur chases by the Allies since the outbreak of war: $650,000,000, almost three times the total of aircraft sales for 1939, more than twice the aggregate value of U. S. aero nautical exports to the world market in the past...
...these powers and duties up here from the States. . . . We have only this choice: either to turn the American people loose, subject to the governmental power of an appointed personnel ... or we have got to make it possible for the citizen to resort to the only place under the Anglo-Saxon system of government that an aggrieved person can go to, and that is the courts...
Turkey, on the alert for quislings, arrested a former member of Parliament, one Siri Bellioglu, who had spent his time lobbying against the Anglo Turkish mutual-assistance pact and writing anonymous letters to ministers. Guns were mounted on the decks of passenger ships and the training period of reservists was extended to keep more men under arms...