Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This meeting was at Franklin Roosevelt's invitation. It was an act, not of self-abasement like Neville Chamberlain's trip to Munich, but of cheerful desperation. He wanted to tell the Senate's leaders face to face why he needed a free hand in world power politics, what was going on in the mad world abroad...
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain publicly abandoned his policy of appeasing the dictators last March many political opponents doubted that the spattered British lion could so quickly change his spots. Last week they thought they had a few facts to confirm these doubts...
...British Government economic expert and Secretary for Overseas Trade. Not a member of the Cabinet, Mr. Hudson nevertheless is one of His Majesty's Ministers. He led a "revolt"' of junior ministers last winter against the Cabinet's dilatory rearmament policy and, although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would "fight and beat" Germany at her own game. Like Dr. Wohlthat, he too got his wife from Philadelphia...
...meetings of the Non-intervention Committee Britons particularly admired his successful duels with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky. Although Dictator Mussolini consistently made a liar out of his Ambassador by violating pledges as fast as they were given, Count Grandi was able to persuade Prime Ministers Baldwin and Chamberlain to negotiate Mediterranean settlements guaranteeing the status quo. It was only when Italian Blackshirts invaded Albania that Britain reluctantly decided that Il Duce could not be trusted and turned to Russia...
Double-Dutch-damned by Nazi toy makers was Britain's Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain. Reason: the sales of German-made toys in Britain were threatened by the waxing popularity of British-made Chamberlain-with-umbrella toys...