Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N. Y.) offered $10,000 for the capture of Chamberlain and Reynaud "dead or alive...
...escaped in his boats by night, after pretending by day to deploy for rallies and counterattacks. This maneuver was directed by the British Army's redheaded commander, Major General Bernard Paget, 51, son of the late Bishop of Oxford. That same spring afternoon in London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, breaking the news to Parliament that Britain's arms south of Trondheim were completely outclassed, said in a pathetic attempt at enthusiasm that the Åndalsnes reembarkation was carried out "without losing a single man." If it was so carried out it was technical operation that military men will admire...
...Next day the world learned that the evacuation of Åndalsnes was only the curtain raiser for the abandonment by all Allied forces of three-fifths of the land and six-sevenths of the people they had only a fortnight before gone to save. What Mr. Chamberlain did not say was that from the Allies' other main beachhead, Namsos, north of Trondheim, the balance of the Northwestern Expeditionary Force fled Norway that same day and night. The Allies had intended to pinch Trondheim from north and south. With the south prong of the pincers demolished, to press with...
...covered Prime Minister Chamberlain's historic statement in Commons on the British withdrawal from Norway yesterday, and it was presumed he fell from a suburban train while on his way to the country for a night's rest before returning for today's session of Commons...
Died. Captain D. S. King, 33, British Airways pilot, who flew the plane that carried Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Germany during the Munich crisis in 1938; in a plane crash near Loch Lomond. Two other crisis pilots have also died in air crashes...