Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Downing Street. Last week Mr. Chamberlain invited to No. 10 Downing Street the Italian Ambassador, spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, and in Mr. Eden's presence himself made, as Prime Minister, opening moves for quickly closing the breach between London and Rome opened by Il Duce's conquest of Ethiopia and sending of troops to Spain. Mr. Eden was thus subjected by the head of the House of Chamberlain to acute personal humiliation. Saturday and Sunday, for the first time since the Abdication Crisis there were meetings of the British Cabinet. A patient, drably-dressed crowd almost filled...
Next morning's papers carried the Eden letter of resignation, addressed to "My Dear Prime Minister," giving his reason: "I cannot recommend to Parliament a policy with which I am not in agreement." In a letter to "My Dear Anthony" Chamberlain accepted...
After breakfast Mr. Chamberlain received Count Grandi who left No. 10 grinning. Then the Prime Minister drove to Buckingham Palace and King George kept Mr. Chamberlain for lunch...
...keeper of another man's confidence!" cried ex-Secretary Eden, neatly suggesting that he was above keeping Businessman Chamberlain's squalid conscience. "Agreements that are worthwhile are never made on the basis of threats. . . . The Prime Minister has strong views on foreign policy and I respect him for it. I have strong views, too! Of late the conviction has grown steadily on me that there has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms with others-rather than for others to make terms with us. . . . Propaganda against this country by the Italian Government is rife...
...Deal No. 2. Cautiously testing British public opinion, as one inches for ward on thin ice, Neville Chamberlain an nounced that "temporarily" the new Foreign Secretary would be Viscount Halifax. Pro-German but High-Church and idealistic, Lord Halifax-who "sees the in scrutable hand of Divine Providence at work almost everywhere," even in Germany and Italy-was Mr. Chamberlain's personal envoy last November to Herr Hitler. But His Majesty's Government this week obviously were thinking almost exclusively about Rome...