Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addressing a session of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union this week (an unlikely possibility), the last phase of the peace drive petered to a close last week at Castel Gandolfo, Italy. One after the other the world's Big Men-Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Chamberlain-had reneged, bungled, excused or disqualified themselves from the job of proposing the one Big Plan the world had spent two months hoping for-a Peace Plan...
...British people these fulminations seemed surprisingly unsubtle. In the House of Commons Sir Neville Chamberlain said he did not "propose to waste time by commenting at length." That the speech was unsubtle at least in its efforts to pry France from England was proved by the Paris reaction-gay ridicule. Italians were a bit hurt by the fact that over the radio they heard no sound when Ribbentrop praised Italy but a huge cheer when Russia was mentioned...
...Instead, pragmatic British statesmen quickly explained that the British Government's Polish guarantee applied only to German aggression and not to a Russian invasion. Winston Churchill even argued that what Comrade Stalin had done "was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia." And Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain indirectly approved of the First Lord's argument by conceding, in the House of Commons, that "there is nothing in this interpretation which is at variance with the view of the Government." All this had caused plenty of dismay in Rumania, which is also guaranteed by Britain and France, but which...
...City of Flint caused an angry stir in the U. S. State Department (see p. 16). From a naval viewpoint it was much bigger news that the 10,000-ton Deutschland-perhaps also her sisters Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee-was at large as a raider. Prime Minister Chamberlain took official cognizance of Deutschland in his weekly report to the House of Commons. She was known to have operated off Newfoundland between Oct. 5 and Oct. 15, halting two Norwegian vessels and sinking one of them, in addition to Stonegate. Admiral Scheer was believed operating in the South Atlantic...
Cooper. Into action on the U. S. front went Alfred Duff Cooper, the Conservative statesman who last year resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest to Prime Minister Chamberlain's "surrender" at Munich. He arrived in Manhattan with his beauteous actress wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, to tour the land and deliver 40 lectures (for a "very substantial fee," his agent said...