Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Punch readers last week saw Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain watching like a pastoral shepherd the cooing of doves of peace and the gamboling of two spring lambs, respectively the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Italy, Lord Perth, and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law (see cut). To a loudly cheering audience in his native Birmingham last week, the Prime Minister predicted that when the Anglo-Italian Treaty which Perth & Ciano have now negotiated in Rome is made public officially "It will be found that it is not the Prime Minister who has been...
...cried Neville Chamberlain with unusual vehemence, "I will be prepared...
King George and Queen Elizabeth, who promptly took likable, new U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy & family into the Buckingham Palace family circle, had these new American friends down to Windsor Castle for the week end. Also present were Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain. London has taken to the Kennedy children almost as enthusiastically as though they were the King's own moppets, and the Sunday Observer has recently come out with the results of a competition in which Britons have been writing verses on the U. S. Ambassador's recent hole-in-one at Stoke Poges...
...Prime Minister replied that if His Majesty's Government followed the course desired by Labor "you would have sinking of ships, you would have perhaps naval battles, and a European war would have begun!" Neville Chamberlain insisted that his policy has "met with approval, not only in this country but abroad, with the possible exception of Russia." He refused to call a General Election for "no Government with an ample majority ever went to the country at the demand of such feeble opposition." The House finally supported Chamberlain...
...ringing tones Orator Chamberlain cried: "His Majesty's Government stand by these declarations!" That pretty well took care of rumors of the week before that "Young Turks" hoped to turn out old Neville Chamberlain for failing to support Mr. Eden's uncompromising hostility to aggressive Italy and Germany. The Commons cheered Mr. Chamberlain to the rafters and His Majesty's Government were keel down once more...