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Strength and Intelligence. Recently Colonel Lindbergh dined with King Edward and his close friend War Minister Alfred Duff Cooper, the British leader in arousing public opinion to the horrors of a German air attack (see p. 17). Adolf Hitler is the leader in arousing Germans to the horrors of a Russian or French air attack. For years Der Führer and German Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring have been staging the world's most realistic fake air raids, gouging holes in the middle of German streets in which fake air bombs are planted, exploding smoke bombs...
...Great Britain's frontier is no longer the white cliffs of Dover but the wimpling Rhine (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934) have Berlin statesmen been so vexed at London as they were last week. Reason: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for War, the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff-Cooper, had hied himself to Paris and there made a speech in which he told Frenchmen...
...Duff-Cooper went on to arraign, without actually mentioning names, almost everything for which Germany, the Nazis and Adolf Hitler stand as "detestable ideals." Cried he: "I affirm that not only our frontiers but also our ideals are in mortal danger. It is therefore on the two great democracies of the western world- Britain and France-that there now rests the terrible responsibility of saving not only our persons but the civilization we have created...
Clipped back Duff Cooper: "Should not Labor decide whether it intends to support or retard recruitment for the British Army...
Sitting in Ottawa's condemned Old Court Building, the five scarlet-robed Justices and Liberal Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff approved (4-to-2) an amendment to the criminal code providing criminal prosecution for unfair business practices such as the granting of discriminatory discounts, rebates, allowances. They also unanimously approved the Farmers' Creditors' Arrangement Act, providing machinery for negotiating reductions in rural debts and interest rates...