Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risk of their lives keep one jump ahead of the Gestapo or secret police. With supreme audacity the Freedom Station opened up in the early morning, broadcast as a straight news bulletin that the Allies had just agreed to an 18-day armistice, that the "Chamberlain-Churchill Cabinet" had resigned, that King George VI had abdicated and that the Duke of Windsor was back on the throne of Great Britain...
Month ago the Cabinet decided it would like to create a Trade Ministry. In order that this Ministry might have something to do, the Cabinet voted to give it the trade jurisdictions of the Foreign Office. But this left the Foreign Office with almost nothing...
...sort of super-club. Its positions offer security, rank, travel, perhaps titles, and most important, a chance to represent the Emperor. When it heard about the proposed Trade Ministry, it rose in its pride and told its new Admiral-Minister, huge, jovial, mild Kichisaburo Nomura, to make the Cabinet behave...
Admiral Nomura, who knows the difference between a quarterdeck and a quartermaster but is a little hazy on parliamentary procedure, came away from the next Cabinet meeting a sad man. "I am like a naval officer," he said, "who has been sent out to sink an enemy ship -and failed." The plan was going through...
With the prospect of almost nothing to do anyhow, the Foreign Office almost unanimously struck. The Cabinet was not impressed. Most of the diplomatic corps, including Ambassadors in London and Washington, protested. The Cabinet held firm. And so, last week, the 113 dissidents handed in their resignations...