Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain's Leap...
TIME'S editors, bemused by gout, evidently have never leapt walls. In your issue of Jan. 17 you show a picture of Britain's gaitered Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "leaping" a stone wall. Look more closely. There is a ladder in the right-hand corner. Mr. Chamberlain has climbed up the ladder and is now gingerly stepping off. He is going to land stiff-legged at that. He will probably wryly agree that a leap should be goaty, not gouty...
...whole point of Eamon de Valera's scheduled talks in London this week with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mr. MacDonald is of course to attempt conciliation. Success will be hard to achieve, but optimists recalled that away back in 1921 the British Government, then headed by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, declared that "any effort to induce Ulster [Northern Ireland] to unite with the rest of Ireland will have our benevolent neutrality." After Mr. Lloyd George had had a little more contact with Mr. de Valera, the Welshman observed: "Negotiating with that Irishman is like trying to scoop...
Because gout bedded Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain during the recent ceremony at which His Majesty opened...
...that months of pan-Islamic and pro-Fascist propaganda and intrigue in the Near East by agents of Benito Mussolini had sown in Cairo much of what the King was trying to reap this week. The British were not in the least relieved when Ali Maher Pasha, Chief Political Chamberlain of His Majesty, also told London papers by telephone that "there is not a word of truth" in the rumors that Egypt's new Cabinet is pro-Mussolini...