Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eden then took a nap in the Foreign Office, after which he motored to spend a quiet country weekend with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Behind him he left instructions that he could not be reached by telephone unless the call was from Berlin. Exhausted Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain who, like Adolf Hitler, finds music a powerful restorative, went to hear Beethoven's Quartet in A Minor (Opus No. 132). "I think," said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, "that it is the most soothing music ever composed...
After Pierre Etienne Flandin and Paul van Zeeland had thus spoken in clear, temperate language, His Majesty's Government found the honor and good faith of the United Kingdom engaged and tested. Famed British elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain (who was the chief architect of the Locarno Pact and was made a Knight of the Garter by King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right...
...appointment of the deputy is the direct result of charges by such elder statesmen as Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., that the "thinking machine" of the Prime Minister has proved inadequate to carry the burdens imposed by his rank as Chairman of the Committee of Imperial Defense. In London it was universally predicted that a man of conspicuous energy and brains would be chosen. Among the capital's more blatant newsorgans each has had its favorite candidate, the most arresting being the Daily Mail's choice of an Australian, famed Stanley Melbourne Bruce, kinetic, Conservative, air-minded...
...recent attack on Mr. Baldwin's "thinking machine" by Elder Conservative Statesman & Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 24) was last week answered by Squire Baldwin with a blunt refusal to part with one iota of his prerogatives. But the Prime Minister did say he would appoint a Deputy to act for him the greater part of trie time as Chairman of the Council of Imperial Defense which will largely spend the Armament billions. Who this Deputy will be, Mr. Baldwin did not yet choose to tell the House...
Died. William Horace de Vere ("Old King Cole") Cole, 53, Great Britain's No. 1 practical joker, brother-in-law of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain; in Honfleur, France. Most famous of his 95 pranks were the results of skillful impersonation: 1) when a student at Cambridge, he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar, had dignitaries escort him through the University, give him a champagne dinner; 2) in 1908, as a well-known Indian potentate, he asked to see the Dreadnaught, newest of battleships, then surrounded in official secrecy. The naval officials put on full regalia...