Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France in a pledge to aid one another in case of attack. The British Government had flatly dropped all pretenses of continental neutrality. It was an event that went a long way toward restoring the balance of power that had lately swung heavily in favor of the dictators. If Chamberlain's words meant anything, they meant that from now on Führer Hitler will have few if any more bloodless conquests...
...When today a British statesman [Neville Chamberlain] demands that every problem which lies in the midst of Germany's life interest first should be discussed with England, then I, too, could demand just as well that every British problem first is to be discussed with...
...rest of the proceedings at Montélimar. indicated a high degree of unanimity between the President and his Premier. Premier Edouard Daladier eulogized him. In return M. Lebrun, who had recently been exposed to Neville Chamberlain's belated distrust of the dictators, came out strongly against aggressors, and praised the strong reply of Premier Daladier to Benito Mussolini's declaration on Italy's colonial issues (TIME, April 3). M. Daladier had said quite flatly and unexcitedly over the air that: 1) France would willingly discuss Italy's demands as soon as Italy clarified them...
...Britain, however, the 6th Earl of Clarendon, the Lord Chamberlain (alias, censor of Britain's stage and literature), keeps an eagle eye out not only for theatrical obscenity, profanity, sacrilege and references to royalty but also for possible insults to heads of foreign States. Last week, perusing the book and lyrics of a new London revue, Censor Lord Clarendon spotted a song entitled Even Hitler Had a Mother, hastily banned the piece. The forbidden ditty...
...British Government last week edged one short step forward to the adoption of the dread Continental system of universal conscription of men for military training. In the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced plans for another attempt to increase Britain's armed forces by voluntary enrollment. Although the Prime Minister said that "we have not by any means yet exhausted what can be done by voluntary service," the House and the nation had the impression the failure of this scheme (plus another Adolf Hitler coup) would probably mean full conscription at last...