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...already blasted from office Viscount Swinton, former Air Secretary, have jarred big, burly Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Coordination of Defense, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and his assistant, Geoffrey Lloyd, in charge of air-raid precautions. The harried Prime Minister realizes that a far-reaching revelation of a breakdown in Britain's defense preparations will rock his Cabinet, might even tumble the Government from office...
...Emergency faced the U. S., and the 75th responded to that magic word as the 73rd never dreamed of doing. In 154 days ending last week, the 75th succeeded in appropriating $12,321,635,000, more than any session of Congress has ever appropriated in time of peace. Breakdown of the appropriations...
Promptly, President Dubinsky labeled such reports "absolutely untrue." But his old friend Louis Stark did not mind and Mr. Stark's old friends knew better. Ever since Mr. Dubinsky accused John L. Lewis of responsibility for the breakdown of A. F. of L.-C.I.O. peace negotiations last December, relations between I.L.G.W.U. and C.I.O. have been becoming increasingly unfriendly. What many labor leaders resent is the disruption of the hundreds of local labor councils in which A. F. of L. and C.I.O. unionists can work together effectively, but which a complete breach between the two national organizations makes increasingly difficult...
...were high on the eve of a Kuomintang Congress scheduled for this week to adjust points of difference with the Chinese Communists. Of China and Japan able Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele flashed from Hankow: "Each side believes that the other is on the brink of an internal breakdown, but each is dead wrong as far as the immediate future is concerned. .... The Government here is scarcely recognizable as the same crowd of officials who fled Nanking in confusion last fall...
Talk of fortifying Singapore started almost as soon as Britain gained control of the island, but it came to little until the breakdown of the Anglo-Japanese alliance in 1921. Almost simultaneously Prime Minister David Lloyd George announced that a major naval base would be built at Singapore, years of puttering about with surveyors and dredging machines followed, but not until 1928 did work really begin. Later Australia and New Zealand, the Federated Malay States and the swarthy Sultan of Johore, whose land lies just beyond Singapore island, became sufficiently alarmed at Japanese imperialism to come through with contributions. Work...