Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action was wanted in France, and so the Daladier Cabinet fell (see col. 2). Action was wanted in Britain, and the press put increasing pressure on Prime Minister Chamberlain to form a five-man War Cabinet, with Activist Winston Churchill as lord of land, sea and air forces (see p.22). The Allies were apparently coming to the conclusion that a war of "limited liability" had become a liability. If the next move were up to them; which...
Acclaimed for its explanation of its policy toward the Russo-Finnish war (see col. 3), the British Government (and Parliament) prepared to go home for Easter. One question still weighed on Parliament's collective mind (and on the minds of lots of other people), so the Chamberlain Government briskly addressed itself to relieving the pressure. The question: Were the Allies wise to pursue their seven-month "Sitzkrieg...
...before Prime Minister Chamberlain had told the House: "I know that there are some who would urge a more vigorous policy, who say that by some unexplained, imaginative stroke of daring we ought, as they say, to wrest to ourselves the initiative. With the responsibility that rests upon the shoulders of this Government we cannot be hustled into adventures which appear to us to present little chance of success and much chance of danger and perhaps disaster...
Great Britain. In a terse two-minute speech in the House of Commons, Neville Chamberlain dryly repeated that somehow, some way Britain would have sent men had Finland asked for them. Up jumped Leslie Hore-Belisha. The Finns, he said, had repeatedly asked for both materials and men. It was shameful "to plead as an excuse a pure technicality." Prime Minister Chamberlain politely corrected his former War Secretary. Materials they had asked...
Prime Minister Chamberlain agreed to air the whole progress of the war this week. Not a few commentators began predicting a thorough Cabinet shakeup...