Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indignation meeting at the radicalism of Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his Cabinet was what the annual Conservative Party Conference paradoxically amounted to last week at Margate. By enduring British standards, it is radical for His Majesty's Government, when challenged by a Germany hungry to regain colonies now under the British flag, to shilly-shally evasively as the Prime Minister has done, bleating that his Cabinet "has not considered this matter." It was Conservative last week, and rousingly Conservative in a robust Victorian sense, when more than 1,000 of the 1,400 Margate Conference delegates leaped...
...said. In short, the Conference atmosphere last week was not 1936, but at least as far back as 1836. This fact made headlines because there was no "human interest" news about what the Prime Minister had had to say at Margate or about his pipe or his pigs. Stanley Baldwin was absent and absent too was the amiable humbug with which he has led Great Britain for so long, meandering down the winding path of least resistance in both home and foreign affairs. A reborn fighting Conservative spirit was stirring at Margate last week and the Party was veering toward...
...Stanley Baldwin desires and expects to be succeeded as Prime Minister by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, laborious and uninspiring Neville Chamberlain. In the Labor Daily Herald last week the Margate Conference was cartooned as a "Political Dreamland Movie Palace," presenting Mr. Chamberlain in the stellar role of a film entitled The Man Who Could Work Miracles (But Won't). The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the Conference in fact as the designated representative of the Prime Minister, and Mr. Baldwin had interrupted the three-month holiday he is taking on doctor's orders to come...
...neither a great nor a fighting speech, but it was both firmer and more precise than what Great Britain has grown tired of hearing from Stanley Baldwin. While the Prime Minister has publicly regretted the invention of the airplane and wished it could cease to exist, the Chancellor of the Exchequer declared: "I can imagine no more sobering thought to any ruler who might be contemplating aggression against his neighbor than the knowledge that within a few hours his action might be followed by the retaliation of a force of such terrific striking power as our new air force will...
Whereas Mr. Baldwin has been pleasantly vague about World economic recovery by the lifting of trade barriers some day, Mr. Chamberlain declared : "All indications are that we have left free trade behind forever, or until the whole world agrees to abolish tariffs on imports, which comes to pretty much the same thing...