Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retirement of anti-Fascist Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as Russia's Foreign Commissar (see p. 22). The suspicion was well-founded that the Soviet Union had suddenly become disinterested in a Stop-Hitler alliance with the West. On the floor of the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to answer angry charges from Opposition M. P.s that he had been "dilatory" in seeking a tie-up with the Soviet Union. Most pugnacious was peppery old David Lloyd George, Wartime Prime Minister, who wanted to know if Britain's Army chiefs had advised the Government that Britain...
Most popular foreign democratic statesman in Germany since last September has been British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. To many Germans who suddenly realized last autumn that war was very close, Mr. Chamberlain appeared as a hero who flew to Germany (three times) bringing much-desired peace. Two popular German picture post cards after the crisis showed Mr. Chamberlain and Herr Hitler together, one before the Dreesen Hotel in Godesberg, the other with the ruins of Godesburg Castle in the background...
LONDON--Prime Minster Chamberlain today, in a last minute effort to bring into Europe's "Peace Front", publicly in a single handed war against Germany...
...Chamberlain, answering Moscow's objections before the House of Commons, admitted that the Soviets were suspicious of being drawn into an anti-aggression alignment in which they would be left "holding the bag" if Fuchrer Adolf Hitler's armies should strike castward to obtain more territory for the expanding German Retch...
...Still going strong after 18 months, Pins and Needles 1939, has basted in six new numbers, ripped out four old ones, looks better in its new dress. Best new gag: Neville Chamberlain's "if at first you don't concede, fly, fly again." Best new numbers: The Red Mikado which kids the Mikado epidemic with placards announcing a Flea Mikado and Strip Mikado. One of the neo-Gilbert lyrics...