Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the wheel horses of British politics took to the public platform to prepare British opinion for the coming shift in foreign policy. From the beginning, one of the most ardent believers in clamping Sanctions on Italy's ambitions was Sir Austen Chamberlain. Last week this gaunt Elder Statesman was on his feet crying...
...Magdala's peasants were heartily sick of the war. Many a glum-faced, kinky-polled native spat in the dust as the little imperial party passed. Some crept up to the imperial quarters. A volley of shots crashed through the windows. The Emperor's valet and his chamberlain, both of whom were standing talking to their master, dropped dead. The little Emperor was not scratched...
Cried Laborite Arthur Greenwood: "The honorable Chancellor has balanced all his budgets either by defaulting in his payments to the United States or by robbing somebody's hen roost." To this, the best rejoinder Chancellor Chamberlain could think of was : "When the Labor Party was in power ... it received in reparations [from Germany] ?54,000,000 and paid the United States ?46,500,000. The National Government has received only ?800,000 in reparations, and paid the United States ?32,500,000." This seemed an excellent moment for moon-faced Winston Churchill to rise and call the Commons...
...Next day Chancellor Chamberlain told the Commons that he had asked the great underwriting house of Lloyds to investigate rumors of a leak. Whether on inside information or guesswork, last-minute gamblers were supposed to have collected some $500,000 of insurance against last week's budget increases...
...Announcing his budget two years ago, Chancellor Chamberlain had quipped: "Great Britain has now finished Bleak House and is sitting down to enjoy the first chapter of Great Expectations" (TIME, April...