Word: chamberlaine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Looming Chamberlain. Londoners agreed that tall, hawk-nosed, black- haired Chancellor of the British Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loomed in the Empire's eye last week as a future Prime Minister because of his potent and dignified handling of the debt issue in the House of Commons where anger, much less hysteria, was never permitted to get the upper hand...
Chancellor Chamberlain showed himself a true John Bull of the old school when he said quietly that Britain's payment would be made even though it would unbalance the Budget by a sum equal or superior to that paid...
...Default by the British Government on a sum it could not truthfully say it was unable to pay," icily observed Mr. Chamberlain, "would have resounded all round the world and might have given justification for other debtors to follow that example...
Last week the Empire found Chancellor Chamberlain's stand for payment tonic, found perfectly dignified his further statement that Britain will pursue at an appropriate time (perhaps not until after President-elect Roosevelt's inauguration) further negotiations with the U. S. looking to reduction by the U. S. of what Britain owes...
Also ill last week lay: Sir Austen Chamberlain, of food poisoning, in London; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, of a heart attack, in Lincoln, Neb.; Leon Trotsky, of a heavy cold, in Copenhagen; Air Minister Paul Painlevé, of collapse after speaking lengthily in the Chamber of Deputies, in Paris...