Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, Bill Bullitt in Paris, Bill Phillips in Rome, Joe Kennedy in London. After listening to Mr. Kennedy at length on the transatlantic telephone, Secretary of State Hull marched out of his office, across the street to the White House, to give a verbatim account of what Prime Minister Chamberlain had just told-and asked-Joe Kennedy...
Present with the No. 1 Nazi were No. 2 Nazi Goring, No. 3 Nazi Goebbels and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, who arrived from Berlin with what was said to be a personal piece of advice to Adolf Hitler from Neville Chamberlain...
...Hitler than this statement was an announcement made without comment by the British Admiralty that 42 warships of the Home Fleet had been ordered to its base at Scapa Flow, Scotland-that is, directly opposite Germany-for two months' maneuvers. On top of this, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sent Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to make a speech at Lanark, Scotland. There he strongly reaffirmed Neville Chamberlain's own declaration of last March that Britain might find herself drawn into any war breaking out in Eastern Europe. "The beginning of a conflict is like the beginning...
...line, pleaded with him to keep the peace, was assured there would be no Japanese-Russian war. Since then Cleveland's Abraham ("Abe") Pickus has been busy telephoning world diplomats, dictators and statesmen in a vigorous one-man campaign to bring about international amity. Although Chamberlain, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and many another bigwig refused to talk, Veteran Pickus once was put through to Spain's Franco, another time to Hitler, whom he promptly bewildered by shouting: "Hello, Hello! Is this A. Hitler? This is A. Pickus of Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A." Last week Mr. Pickus...
...jittery Prague, President Eduard Benes' nephew, Jiri Benes, front-paged an editorial declaring blandly that Neville Chamberlain has sent Lord Runciman to act as a "witness for the Crown" in case war begins at the Czechoslovak border. Its conclusion...