Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough standing to lunch with His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Halifax. While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper jubilantly front-paged it as showing the "real mind" of Neville Chamberlain. Viscount Runciman, the British Mediator in Prague, began cabling London heavily in code, was reported threatening to resign. Finally, in the evening, at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister issued a communiqué: "The suggestion to the effect that the Czechoslovak Government might consider as an alternative to their...
...This is one of the most damaging indiscretions in the records of responsible journalism!" promptly blazed London's Liberal News Chronicle. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's stanch supporter, the Conservative Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, declared: "No more sinister blow could have been struck...
When the potent Trades Union Congress, which represents 5,000,000 British workers, convened at Blackpool, Lancashire last week, loud demands were raised by militants for a new policy pledging Labor to cooperate no longer with Conservative Chamberlain's Cabinet in the big-paying job of Rearmament...
Officials of the T.U.C. and Labor Party joined in a resolution warning Germany to keep out of Czechoslovakia, demanding that Neville Chamberlain call Parliament in extraordinary session to stiffen British policy against the Nazis. But British Labor was not willing to deny support to stodgy Prime Minister Chamberlain. T.U.C. refused to condemn the Prime Minister by refusing him cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor...
...attack offend Australia at the moment when Britain is striving desperately to maintain Dominion acceptance of her own foreign policy. Next day their fears were relieved. Out came the Australian Prime Minister, bluff Joseph A. Lyons, with one of the most vigorous backslaps for British Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy ever delivered. To newshawks Prime Minister Lyons declared that his Cabinet had decided to express to Great Britain its complete confidence in steps and methods adopted by the British Government for a peaceful settlement of the Czechoslovak-Sudeten German dispute...