Foreign News: Baldwin the Magnificent

"Not only did the Prime Minister show himself a great Minister of the Crown, but the whole British people displayed a moral force," said Le Temps of Paris last week. "This test, which was very perilous, has magnificently confirmed the value of British institutions!"

Even Stanley Baldwin's warmest enemy, sanctions-badgered Benito Mussolini, was enough of a Great Editor last week to agree that the Prime Minister had been great in handling the Empire crisis of Edward VIII. Il Duce dictates daily the tone of Italy's press and the following handsome admission in Giornale...

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