Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed without one, but early this week so many alarming rumors (and war preparations) had spread over Europe that Adolf Hitler apparently decided that the hour was not quite as propitious as he had thought. An "authorized" (but unidentified) Nazi spokesman delivered an extraordinary announcement, prompted by Neville Chamberlain's statement to the House of Commons that armed Germans had already entered Danzig. Said he: "We have no desire to go against the territorial integrity of Poland. If we had wanted to let the matter come to military action, we could have done so any day. . . . There...
...Secretary Viscount Halifax made an address to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a body set up during the Paris Peace Conference for the study of contemporary diplomacy. The British press unanimously hailed the speech as the truest expression of British opinion ever made by a member of the Chamberlain Government: "What is now fully and universally accepted in this country, but what may not even yet be as well understood elsewhere, is that in the event of further aggression we are resolved to use at once the whole of our strength in fulfillment of our pledges to resist...
...Ribbentrop: "[I wish Mr. Churchill] were a member of the Government this moment." With a scrape heard round the world the Conservatives thus made Puss Churchill a path to a place by the fire, and politicos with second sight could already see Winston Churchill snuggled into a reorganized Chamberlain Cabinet, probably as First Lord of the Admiralty, the post he filled brilliantly during the World War. In any case, with this great reconciliation a united Conservative Party could brave not only the perils of German aggression, but the prospects of a general election in the fall...
Sampled recently by the British Institute of Public Opinion, the British public also spoke kind words; 56% wanted Winston Churchill in the Chamberlain Government...
...might well become a War Front. A neater, less dangerous solution would be for the Danzig Senate simply to declare the City annexed to Germany. This would place Poland in the bad strategic position of having to take the initiative and becoming the technical aggressor. If Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain should get fainthearted about the Polish Guarantee, as the Nazis confidently expect, he would have a hole, albeit small, through which he could weasel. The first timid step in this direction was taken last week when a German naval delegation, at the invitation of the Danzig Government, visited the Free...