Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stanch supporter of Appeaser Chamberlain, Sir Nevile's return led to rumors that the British Government was again turning tail and was preparing to lead Ally France into another Munich settlement. From Foreign Office spokesmen in London, however, came the assurance that Sir Nevile took back to Berlin a message from the Chamberlain Government which: 1) advised Führer Hitler not to reject flatly President Roosevelt's appeal, 2) warned that Britain might answer further German aggression with peacetime conscription...
When witty, dashing David Lloyd George was elected a Carnarvonshire alderman at 26, an M. P. at 27, he was criticized as being too brash for one so young. At the end of the century, with such mighty trombones as Joe Chamberlain blaring imperialism, he was criticized for playing pacifistic, pro-Boer tunes. The wealthy aristocracy lambasted him, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his famous Budget of 1909 (which lambasted them) and for his bad taste in calling certain noblemen "Mr. Balfour's poodles." In 1912 he was censured in Parliament for a somewhat shady deal...
...better remembered in the U. S. as Philip Henry Kerr, secretary from 1916 to 1921 to David Lloyd George, Wartime British Prime Minister. He was raised to the peerage in 1930. A Liberal peer, in later years he has become more a Conservative, has warmly supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy and is usually counted among the members of Lady Astor's "Cliveden...
...Ministry of Supply-an agency to conscript business for war just as the Army may conscript men. Last week such a Ministry was finally created. In wartime it will see that Government orders get precedence, that businesses get fair but limited profits. All England wondered whether Neville Chamberlain would give the Ministry to an aggressive man of action-Winston Churchill, for example. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons and announced that the job would go to the 51-year-old Milquetoast Minister of Transport, Dr. Edward Leslie Burgin, one uninhibited Laborite shouted the unexpressed sentiment...
...international banker who, during crises, will spend a day at transatlantic telephoning, Bill Wasserman since the first of the year has traveled 18,000 miles, poking his head into various high places in search of useful information. At No. 10 Downing Street, London, in the office of Neville Chamberlain's economic adviser, Sir Horace Wilson, Banker Wasserman engaged in a conversation that last week proved highly interesting to the U. S. According to Mr. Wasserman, Sir Horace told him that at the outbreak of war the British Government would take over all the U. S. securities held...