Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final culmination of a tide of events sweeping the United Kingdom out of its cozy past and into a more or less hectic and "American" future. Against this trend the spirit of John Bull resolutely set himself, and the flesh was that of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. The Prime Minister provoked the entire crisis, which otherwise might never have arisen as a crisis, by making publicly in the House of Commons the first official statement that King Edward was actually resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 14). This fact had been ascertained as a "scoop" personally by William...
...long speech. Mr. Baldwin dwelt upon the evils arising from too little contact between "distinguished Britons," presumably including the King and himself and "distinguished Americans." In his peroration, which seemed to promise eventual cracking of British obstruction to such contact, the Prime Minister cried: "Uninformed criticism on both sides is useless and might, in fact, do each country a great deal of harm!" The U. S. Ambassador is a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, and was much moved when the Prime Minister raised his glass with a bland expression and toasted President Roosevelt's Kentuckian in these words...
Cabinet colleagues of Mr. Baldwin after this, adopted an attitude of stoicism, hoped that distinguished U. S. citizens arriving for the Coronation will realize that both the Prime Minister and the new King-Emperor mean well, that "it is really underlings who are to blame." For example, an unusual British Foreign Secretary had some overseas friends stopping with him in the latter years of George V's reign, and wanted to take them along to a State Dinner at Buckingham Palace. His civil servant secretary told him he would have to write and ask the U. S. Embassy...
Last week the U. S. Embassy confirmed "no change" in this British setup, and kindly Ambassador Bingham is the last gentleman from Kentucky who would think of remonstrating officially with British gentlemen. His reply to Mr. Baldwin's 'ham" toast was a speech of which the keynote was: "I think this evening is one of great importance!" Afterward several chagrined M. P.'s said they had an impression that new King George and the old Prime Minister will be "completely inaccessible to Americans who come over for the Coronation...
...Glasgow and Edinburgh view, history will soon begin to record that altogether too many subjects of King George VI are altogether too unsatisfied with what little they know about how Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin secured the abdication and departure of King Edward (TIME, Dec. 21). The fact that Edward VIII had apparently quit, and was even being called contemptuously a "quitter" last week, failed to appease the patient resolve of Scotsmen to know all, sooner or later. The adjournment of the House of Commons in London last week was welcomed by Scottish constituents as an opportunity to get their Scottish...