Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's new Cabinet, anxious to announce the terms of their decision to partition Palestine (TIME, July 12), met at No. 10 Downing Street last week in worried session over what might be the attitude of Benito Mussolini. Would Il Duce use his super-power radio station at Bari, which daily broadcasts in Arabic to the natives of the Near East, as an engine of propaganda to stir up the tribes and wreck partition? Would Bari even broadcast in Hebrew to stir up the Jews? During the Ethiopian crisis, Britain learned to her cost how much trouble the Bari...
...temps even as far as London. His Majesty's Government were extremely near the point of extending "belligerent rights" to the Spanish Rightists last week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must be able to tell French Communists that he was successfully staving off this British gesture toward Franco. In this appeal Chautemps & Bonnet-who was on the telephone to London almost hourly seeking support for the franc- succeeded for the duration...
...single sitting one morning last week the new British Cabinet of beak-nosed, decisive Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resolved that the way to end 17 years of bickering and battle between Jews and Arabs in Palestine is to carve them up into separate countries. Protestant and Catholic Irish were thus carved asunder in 1921, and although objectors to this drastic British measure did not stop at murder, strife has subsided between Protestant Northern Ireland and the Catholic Irish Free State (see col. 2). The Cabinet last week sent Minister of Colonies William Ormsby-Gore directly over to the House...
...House of Commons, statements made by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week gave everyone an impression that His Majesty's Government was going to recognize the Spanish Rightists as a true government having "belligerent rights"¶until suddenly this was postponed to enable the new French Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps to win needed votes from the French Communists (see p. 21). Exclaimed David Lloyd George: "Unless there is more courage and steadfastness, the foreign policy of Britain is doomed...
...Paris the new Cabinet of the Popular Front threatened to abandon French neutrality in the Spanish conflict altogether by throwing open the French frontier for arms sales to Spanish Leftists, while keeping it closed to Spanish Rightists...