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Captain Margesson's great & good friend Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose sterner political chores the Captain does, was not in quite such a bad fix as Parliament sat again. But he was in no good fix. Great Britain was grousing about the war's inactivity and part of the press was after ministerial scalps, if not that of Mr. Chamberlain himself. The Prime Minister had to do something, and the best guess was that he would shuffle, but not shake up, his Cabinet, probably reduce his nine-man War Cabinet, possibly give Winston Churchill more war powers (TIME...
...case would not end before 1941. In prospect for them were light sentences and fines, but the fact that in France, prior to last year the Reddest European country outside Spain and Russia, there was so little agitation about the secret trials, was one more indication of a sterner national attitude toward...
Guess you're made of sterner stuff. --The Daily Princetonian...
...Compulsory labor service for men was not introduced until December 1916. This time both men and women were drafted on a large scale early in 1939, months before the war began. Compulsory labor, like rationing, may be a sign rather of sterner preparation than of greater weakness...
...German Nazis. Premier Imredy, while obliged to jail Hungarian Nazi Leader Major Ferenc Szalasi for seditious activities, nevertheless had proved amenable to Nazi ideas. The Premier last month announced plans to bring Hungary into the German-Italian-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact. His racial laws were in some respects even sterner than the Nazis' own Nürnberg decrees. And the Premier had planned to suspend Parliament and set up a totalitarian, one-party State with himself as probable Führer, adding one more state to the Fascintern...