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...desk, sipping a cup of coffee and rolling a cigar between his lips with evident satisfaction. He shoved across the desk a copy of a communiqué to be issued in the names of himself and Adolf Hitler: "We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement [of 1935] as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again...
Anxious queries from French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet were soon answered by British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax with official assurances that the Anglo-French entente has not been scrapped or even weakened by the Chamberlain-Hitler communiqué. Neutral diplomatic experts shrugged, "The terms of the communiqué are indeed so vague that, depending upon circumstances, they can come to mean anything or nothing." Mr. Chamberlain dispatched a formal letter of assurance to M. Daladier...
President James Phinney Baxter III, of Williams College, former Master of Adams House, will start a series of lectures on "Anglo-American Relations Since the Civil War," during the first week of November...
Meanwhile, President Benes and Premier Hodza "yielded unconditionally" to the Anglo-French demands. This may have been smart, too, for the news that Prague had apparently crumpled up in abject surrender caused Adolf Hitler to feel that he need not hurl the German Army at once into Sudetenland. Finally, it was smart for the Hodza Cabinet to resign as soon as it had "yielded unconditionally," thus clearing the way for a fresh Czecho-slovak Government with a clean slate...
Famed "Lady C.", whose husband, Sir Austen Chamberlain, was one of the best friends the League of Nations ever had, visited Rome last winter. There she hobnobbed with League-bolting Il Duce and was credited by diplomats with having done much to smooth the way for the Anglo-Italian Treaty of Friendship which was presently signed, but has never become operative. Reason: By a covering agreement this treaty cannot come into force until substantial numbers of Italian troops have been withdrawn from Spain. Thus last week there was good reason to think Lady C. has just spent a quiet month...