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...Lauds Anglo-French Relations...
After the World War many a disillusioned U. S. citizen-soldier swore that the Government would have to drag him off the dock at Hoboken to make him go to another European war. In Britain much the same attitude developed. Widespread was the feeling that in another Anglo-French war against Germany and her allies, Britain should furnish a fleet, money and materials while France supplied the army...
Winston Churchill, arch-exponent of Anglo-French military cooperation, complained that the British attitude of "one ally should do the paying while the other must do the dying" was an insult to France. Up rose William Shepherd Morrison, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who speaks in the House of Commons for Admiral of the Fleet Lord.Chatfield, Minister for the Coordination of Defense, surprisingly agreed with Mr. Churchill and said significantly: "Once involved in war we could not proceed upon a principle of limited liability." That statement, M.P.s believed, meant that Britain would send another expeditionary force to France...
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano was asked by British Ambassador Lord Perth to explain Italian reinforcements in Libya, which lies between Egypt and French Tunisia. To Lord Perth this was a violation of the Anglo-Italian Treaty of last April. Count Ciano admitted that the Libyan garrison had been doubled from 30,000 to 60,000 men, that even more might be sent. His reasons: the French had concentrated 200,000 men in Tunisia. French estimate of French and native troops in Tunisia...
...story of Gunga Din, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and made into a screen play by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant...