Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short memories. Last week Tokyo newspapers published a warning issued by the Japanese Military at Tientsin: Unless Great Britain showed a more sincere attitude and stopped deliberately delaying the Tokyo parleys on Tientsin issues, the Japanese Army would soon pull some more high jinks to make Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's blood boil...
...week's end Japanese Ambassador-at-Large Sotomatsu Kato warned Sir Robert that unless Great Britain resumed negotiations within 24 hours, the Army delegations would break up the parley, go back to Tientsin, set off another boiler under Neville Chamberlain. After 24 hours the parley was still recessed. Without losing their tempers, the soldiers buckled on their swords and flew back to China. "If Britain mends her ways," said one, "we might come back...
...When Mr. Chamberlain rose to answer that evening, he was obviously angry and shaken. His thin face, seldom giving an impression of vitality, was ashen and his voice was husky and low. With heavy sarcasm he wondered that Mr. Churchill dared let Parliament adjourn for even two weeks...
This was too much for young, hardworking Conservative Ronald Cartland, member for King's Norton, part of Mr. Chamberlain's native Birmingham, who has defended the Prime Minister in many a speech. "Profoundly disturbed," he did what no young M. P. is supposed to do: criticized his Party's leader on the floor. Blurting out with evident sincerity but without much coherence against Mr. Chamberlain's "jeering pettifogging party speeches," he said all year he had had to dispel to his constituents the "absurd impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more...
...days later Mr. Chamberlain made it clear that he now knew it. He began a long answer to Laborite Philip Noel Baker with an ironic, Alice-in-Wonderland account of his difficulties in debate, said he had trouble answering Mr. Noel Baker because "he is always trying to push the Government to go a little further in its statements than I think it ought to go, and it puts me in the position, in refusing to put my foot on unsound ground, that I seem to be willing to go less far than actually...