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...Eliot is an Anglo-Catholic, Evelyn Waugh a Roman Catholic...
...Conservative Party whips threatened purges, Prime Minister Chamberlain lost his temper, disgruntled members of the Party in power spoke out in open revolt, Oppositionists cheered signs of a growing split, as the members drew back from the dread prospect of a two-month vacation. The two great organs of Anglo-Saxon democracy imitated each other in the same sense that a blotter carries a reverse image of the signature it blots...
...policies that the authors of the book advocate. Persuasive rather than strident, the book is obviously aimed for this autumn's probable General Election, attacks pro-Nazis and the Munich settlement, adopts a stern tone only when discussing outright Fascists and Conservatives and the Tory members of the Anglo-German Fellowship. British readers, who knew the British ruling class was rich, small and solid but scarcely expected to find that most of the world of Parliament is kin, doubted that much would come of the revelations in Tory...
Early last week foreign correspondents in London, Moscow and Paris reported that the Anglo-Soviet pact was just about ready for signing. Late last week Prime Minister Chamberlain discussed it fully in a foreign affairs debate in the House of Commons. These sensational developments, however, were made somewhat less exciting by the fact that the pact had been reported ready for signing at least a dozen times before. Indeed, to detached observers the proceedings appeared less like diplomatic negotiations than like the scene in Hellzapoppin, in which a young man promises to escape from a strait jacket in five seconds...
...persuasive. He signed with British President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley a joint memorandum outlining New Zealand's future trade policy in which Great Britain recognizes New Zealand's necessity for reducing imports, approves the methods adopted. For her part, New Zealand promises to foster Anglo-New Zealand trade, assures Great Britain that no uneconomic industries will be protected. Most important, Britain granted New Zealand $45,000,000 in credits ($25,000,000 to be spent on defense, $20,000,000 on imports of heavy machinery and raw materials) and the Bank of England converted...