Britain Seeks Peace While Defends Front Against Encirclement
London reports indicate Britain's cabinet intensifies efforts for a peaceful policy while guarding against a German Italian encirclement. Lord Halifax and Prime Minister Chamberlain address war as last resort and urge a broader move toward enduring peace, stressing coexistence and restraint amid European tensions.
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Germany
Italy
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Lord Halifax
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Nevile Henderson
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Tremely
Pyrenees
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Chinese Hopeful Leaders Forecast War Strain Ends
General Chang Kai-shek told reporters peace is impossible under current circumstances in the Chinese Japanese war. He predicted Japan’s fall from a first rate to a second rate power within 22 months and said a new Far East order would replace permanent Pacific peace. A Chinese spokesman described harassment tactics as flexible elastic ribbons preventing large battles from the South China coast to Mongolia.
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Chungking
Chang Kai- Shek
Japan
South
China
Mongolia
Defence Position To Ottawa Committee Advocated In Senate
Senator W A Griesbach urged a special committee to ascertain Canada’s defence position arguing it could be a joint or single-house panel. He sought a purchasing board chair to join the defence council, citing UK practice with munition director as army council member. Senator Dandurand reviewed wartime measures to curb profits and framed the bill as a war procurement reform.
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United Kingdom
Army Council
Raoul Dandurand
War Purchasing Commission
Tangier in hot spot list amid Mediterranean tensions
Tangier with a population around 60,000 and 225 aquas is now labeled an international hotspot amid five-nation tensions in the Mediterranean. Britain and France warned dictators against moves on the Tangier zone, while Spanish officials said Franco showed no immediate plans. A German fleet of about 40 ships is due May 1, with Italian sailors reported in the city though no Italian warships are in port. New York shipping sources note routes around the Cape of Good Hope rise due to higher cargo insurance as fleets concentrate in the region.
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Soress
Tangier
Italan
Associated Press
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Suez Canal
Cape of Good Hope
Ontario seeks ban on material insulting royal family
The attorney general proposes a judicature act amendment allowing the Supreme Court to halt publication of any newspaper article pamphlet or printed matter that insults degrades or ridicules His Majesty or the royal family. The court may require a bond and anyone breaching an order faces contempt of court.
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Ontario
Supreme Court
Bren Machine Guns Backed as Sufficient for Army Needs
War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha told the House of Commons Britain’s Bren machine guns are produced in adequate numbers to meet army requirements. Output is expanding with capacity created in Canada. Australia, South Africa, and India plan factories. Britain no longer pays royalties on these weapons.
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Leslie Hore-Belisha
House of Commons
Canada
Australia
South Africa
India
Czecho-Slovaki
Government to push employment insurance after amendment
Hon Norman Rogers, minister of labor, told a Commons questioner that the government is prepared to present legislation for an employment insurance scheme once the required constitutional amendment is secured. Quebec, Alberta and New Brunswick have refused to agree to the amendment.
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Outawa
Norman Rogers
Labor
House of Commons
Quebec
Alberta
New Brunswick
Pierlot Forms Two-Party Cabinet in Brussels
Belgium's Hubert Pierlot succeeds in forming a two party coalition after his three party cabinet collapsed within hours. The Catholic party and the Liberals will base the new government while the Socialists refuse to cooperate.
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Agium
Brussels
Hubert Pierlot
Pierlot
Vicious spiral spurs tax protest by Sir Edward Beatty
Sir Edward Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, argues against further tax increases and warns Canada is in a vicious spiral driven by taxation. He urges the Purchas ing Agents Association of Man to address price parity and the lack of fair prices for western farmers wheat, warning profits hinge on farmers selling more.
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Montreal
Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Purchasing Agents’ Association of Man
Canada
Western
Prorogation discussed as King may set May 19 date
In Ottawa Liberal leaders and senators say a good prospect of prorogation by the King on May 19 exists and if the session finishes the work an adjournment of a month may follow. The Conservative caucus also favors completing business by May 19 with Ottawa as the meeting place. France plans to raise its air force to 108500 by 1940 with about 5000 warplanes.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie King
King
Empire Unity Urged by Bennett at London Dinner
Public dinner marked Bennett's first in England since moving permanent residence. He urged a united imperial front, closer coordination in foreign affairs, and possible overseas ministers in London for crisis consultations. Churchill and other dignitaries backed a consolidated empire facing wartime tensions and shared loyalties across dominions.
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Bennett
H Vincent Massey
Lord Maughan
Archbishop Harding
Rupert's Land
Canada
Great Britain
United States
Chur
Atlantic
Pacific
Lindbergh Goes On Active Duty For U S Army Aviation
Air pioneer Charles A Lindbergh, famed Lone Eagle, is called to active duty as an Air Corps testing officer. He will survey American aviation research facilities for the Army Air Corps and report to Major General Henry Arnold after inspecting research centers. Roosevelt conferences on protecting the United States are noted.
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Air Corps
Henry Arnold
Arnold
Roosevelt
United States
Europe
Government plan to cap war risk insurance rates
A white paper outlines provisional government measures to prevent sharp increases in marine war risk reinsurance. It discloses an agreement between the Board of Trade and the War Risks Cargo Pool, a group of marine insurance firms, to stabilize rates and restrain shipping costs amid war risks.
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Governent
Board of Trade
War Risks Cargo Pool
Marine Isurance Companion
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