¶ The long imminent reshuffle of the Chamberlain Cabinet came this week, hastened by heavy debating pressure upon His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons. Charges that Viscount Swinton as Air Secretary has made a muddle of his end of British Rearmament were hurled even by some M.P.s of the Government's own Conservative Party, by many Liberal and Labor M.P.s.
Laborites led in attacking Swinton's recent decision to buy some U. S. war planes (TIME, May 2), demanded a return to purchase of nothing but craft "built by honest British labor." Shouts...
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