Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lords and Commons gathering for the final meeting of the only Parliamentary session ever opened by King Edward VIII (TIME, Nov. 9, 1936), and for the first meeting this week of the first Parliamentary session to be opened by King George VI, there was every reason why the Chamberlain Cabinet must score quickly a triumph of some sort, preferably in foreign affairs. It would not do to have Parliament convene for the winter with His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs actually cutting the figure he was shown cutting last week in a London Evening Standard...
With this scheme sufficiently advanced for the London Committee to be all smiles and cordiality for the first time in months, only Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky darkling, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told Britain's newly-met House of Commons: 1) That he believes the "idea" that Italy intends to hold the Balearic Islands after the Spanish war is over to be "unfounded"; 2) That he accepts "as being given in good faith" Italian assurances that Italy has "no territorial or strategic or even economic designs on Spain." Pointing to Premier Mussolini's consent to adopt the British scheme...
Window-Dressers Benito Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain have been intimately corresponding for months (TIME, Aug. 9). It was clearly no accident that the Italian Premier suddenly agreed last week to a British scheme of July 14 which had seemed as dead as Queen Anne. Spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, on orders from Rome, brought the moribund Non-intervention Committee to life by making this "concession'' to the British last week in concert with the German Delegate, Dr. Ernst Woermann -for Adolf Hitler had also suddenly discovered that he no longer objects to the British scheme of July...
...Nine-Power Treaty signed at Washington in 1922, and pledging respect for the territorial integrity of China and the Open Door meet again soon. As any such meeting is infuriating to Japanese minds, President Roosevelt has not wished to act as host in Washington, "and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has felt the same about London. Last week King Leopold III of the Belgians, Statesman Sovereign of the smallest Nine-Power Treaty signatory, agreed readily "at the request of the British Government and with the approval of the Government of the United States," to be host in Brussels...
...might say, of wearing false hair on the chest. . . ." J. B. Priestley spoke of ". . . Mr. Ernest Hemingway's raucous and swaggering masculinity, which I am beginning to find rather tiresome. It is time some friend spoke sharply to Mr. Hemingway." The N. Y. Times's John Chamberlain asked: "Can it be that Hemingway has been writing pidgin English from the start?" *Obscenity deleted. *Discarded in his signature since...