Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how wrong, Murrow was only too glad to admit. In his calm, precise voice he recalled Munich, and Chamberlain's return, and ". . . Mr. Winston Churchill sitting there below the gangway, like the conscience of Britain...
...very long ago-in the year when Chamberlain waved his umbrella, crying "Peace in our time"-an unknown young woman was writing radio scripts, in Chicago. Her name was Craig Rice and she was all of 30. To her the era of peace just ending had meant a dozen years of bohemian life: three bungled attempts at marriage; innumerable failures to write poetry, novels and music; barely successful efforts to earn a living around newspapers ; and some definite progress in helping local bohemians support the distilling industry. This slightly dated era of peace-in-her-time was ended...
...however, M.P. Harold Nicolson told me, along with a group of American students in England at the time, an even more Churchillian statement which the then rising man had made about his then Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Said Winston Churchill: "He would make a good mayor in a small town in a lean year...
...Next day Göring advised Joachim von Ribbentrop, then ambassador in London: "Tell Halifax and Chamberlain ... it is not true that Germany has given any ultimatum...
Plan Green also provided for an "incident" to provoke German intervention. One idea: to kill Germany's minister to Prague and blame it on the Czechs. The timely intervention of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier at Munich saved Minister Dr. Ernst Eisenlohr's life...