Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Game Spoiled. According to the Ciano version, what really spoiled this Axis game was the overture of Neville Chamberlain to Joseph Stalin and the consequent alarm of Adolf Hitler lest he have to face an Anglo-Franco-Russian lineup. The action of the democracies, said Count Ciano, so bolstered the prestige of the Soviet Government that the Nazis had to do something about it. "If the great democracies had ignored Russia," feelingly continued Ciano, "Germany would have had well-founded motives for doing the same." Thus Britain and France were officially blamed for starting...
...Glasgow had cautioned beforehand: "I do hope your Lordships will manage to conduct yourselves with decorum!" Last measure introduced before the session was scheduled to become secret was The Gas and Steam Vehicles Excise Bill. Too decorous to raise the famed old cry of "I spy!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose at 3 : 5 7 p.m. and observed...
...Rules the Waves." Day after the secret session, the House of Commons again did business in public, and good luck sent Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the British Navy's triumph over the Admiral Graf Spee (see p. 20) to divert public interest from any Government shortcomings in the conduct of the war. Jubilant M. P.s, convinced more than ever that Britain rules the waves and eager to get away for the holidays, gave the Cabinet easy sailing...
...tumbled days that ushered in World War II, contains little new or startling. But for anyone who wants to keep Hitler's actual voice around the house, it is a collector's item. From shortwave radio speeches and from foreign recordings, the producers caught Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier in action, fitted their own voices into the pattern of war in the making. Momentous remarks: Chamberlain, after Munich (sounding like a man having trouble with his uppers): "I believe it is peace for our time"; Hitler, less than a year later (while a quieter voice translates): "Our soldiers have been...
Only once has Tabouis recanted. Last year, on the eve of a visit to Paris by Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Foreign Minister Lord Halifax, Tabouis wrote that they had decided to give Germany the French island of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa. Next day she retracted her statement. To her denial L'Oeuvre's board of editors added a note in angry capitals: "IT IS DESIRABLE THAT FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION SHOULD NOT LET ITSELF BE TROUBLED BY RUMORS SPRINGING ENTIRELY FROM PURE FANTASY...