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...Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India and Burma announced that the Government has now acquired a huge secret store of raw materials as a war preparedness measure, in addition to the stocks of wheat, sugar and whale oil disclosed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon three weeks ago. "We do a great many things unknown to the public," confided the Marquess to his peers...
...Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new "realistic" formula for assuring peace to troubled Europe, namely, negotiation of agreements between nations to remove causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
...Mediterranean and both Chamberlain and Mussolini were convinced that further Leftist resistance would be short-lived. But the Leftists refused to quit. And the thing that gave them most heart was the arrival of at least 200 new planes, presumably from Russia (see p. 16), besides a stream of raw and war materials...
Bert Haines has rounded out his raw Sophomore material in significantly short order this year and believes he has one of the best lightweight boats ever to emerge from Newell. The Blue oarsmen on the other hand are mostly experienced Juniors who experts believe, have already reached their peak this season...
...colonial business has only been postponed, and that is where the British Lion will begin to growl. I suspect that Hitler is organizing his pan-German empire for that; it has not given him the raw materials which he needs...