Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold, scrapped traditional free trade and set her industries humming behind new tariff walls. Today this hum has become a "boom" with riveters dinning all day in and out of London. Last week came another omen of British recovery as hawk-nosed, stoop-shouldered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loosened the Empire's money bags a trifle and dangled the prospect of loans before countries which have hooked their currencies to Sterling. When he took the pound off gold, Chancellor Chamberlain slapped a precautionary embargo on loaning British money overseas. Technically this embargo still blocks even British loans...
Rising in the House of Commons last week, Chancellor Chamberlain said that while he is not yet ready to revoke Britain's foreign loan embargo entirely he is willing "to consider special cases" and make important exceptions to authorize loans which are sought under two major heads: "'First, Sterling issues by a country within the Sterling bloc where the loan is needed to increase Sterling assets of that country and so to minimize the fluctuations of exchanges; second, Sterling issues on behalf of any borrower where the proceeds are calculated mainly to produce direct benefit to British industry...
...John, ostentatiously returned last week to Paris. British public opinion was prepared for what was coming by a few intimations that what Europe needs is a return to "the Spirit of Locarno." Nine years ago at Locarno, Switzerland, gold pens squiggled in the hands of Benito Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western frontier of Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou...
...picture of Rev. Dr. Fulton J. Sheen, printed because he had just been appointed Papal Chamberlain, was captioned: ". . . Has been insulted by the Sun which says the Catholic Church has canonized 'an ordinary scoundrel' and a 'consummate blackguard...
...Shared with Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, whom they loudly cheered, the honor of breaking last week the German Moratorium recently declared by Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht (TIME, June 25). To bring Dr. Schacht to his senses the Commons, well aware that Germany has a favorable trade balance with Great Britain, passed a bill enabling Chancellor Chamberlain to confiscate enough British payments due on German goods to make good the Fatherland's announced default on Dawes and Young bond interest payments. By brandishing this authority from the Commons last week, Chancellor Chamberlain scared Berlin into a promise...