GREAT BRITAIN: Hammer Blows

Amid the glens and greensward and deep foliage of rustic North Wales last week, tired Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin rested with his good wife Lucy. In Whitehall his secretaries did their best to keep down the contents of the red morocco dispatch box which had to be sent to the P.M. each day. The strategy of His Majesty's Government for the time being was comfortably described as "masterly inaction" and yet they were in fact most active.

Palestine-It made no difference that War Minister Alfred Duff Cooper was lolling in the Balkans on...

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