Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been clear almost from the start that forces outside Spain would decide this civil war. Last week the fall of Teruel happened to coincide with a general realization among Spaniards that Chamberlain, Hitler, Chautemps and Mussolini are now dickering toward a four-power agreement (see col. 2). Its effect would be to rule out any victory in Spain for the extreme Left-Communists, Anarchists and the more radical Socialists. General Franco's friends in Britain have always maintained he was ready for a "reasonable Spanish compromise," and with Hitler and Mussolini now telling Chamberlain they want not a square...
...House of Commons His Majesty's Loyal Opposition have about 185 votes. Last week on the issue of Neville Chamberlain's new foreign policy-rapprochement with Italy and Germany, the issue which caused Anthony Eden's resignation (TIME, Feb. 28)-the Opposition voted 167 strong against the Government. They won over to their side just one Conservative, Mr. Vyvyan Adams, an official of the British League of Nations Union...
...world was never more interesting--nor more disheartening. Endless questions, questions he knows he can never answer, pose themselves in the Vagabond's mind. What is the future of the new balance of power for which Chamberlain is striving in Europe? After three hundred years of failure, can England, France, Germany, and Italy find a magic formula to keep the peace? Or will their efforts end like all the rest--in the ruin of another catastrophic...
...Chamberlain finally told the House straight out that Mussolini thought the retention of Eden as Foreign Secretary had meant that Britain "was trying to lull the Italians into inactivity while Britain completed her rearmament and was in a position to take revenge for Ethiopia. That idea is fantastic and never entered our heads, but it is the idea held in Rome...
Final sensation in the House of Commons lobby was the invasion of a turbulent British crowd shouting "Chamberlain must go! Hitler and Mussolini shall not dictate to Britain! Arms and food for Spain! Eden must stay!" Police drove them...