Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs Roosevelt had less relaxation than usual. He made no public comment on the speeches of Adolf Hitler at Wilhelmshaven, of Neville Chamberlain in Parliament (see p. 19), but he talked long on the telephone with his foreign relations experts both at Washington and abroad. While he vacationed his special train stood ready on a siding 70 miles from Warm Springs for a quick return to the Capital. "A source close to the President" gave out that Adolf Hitler must be plotting to extend his conquests beyond Europe into Asia, into the Americas...
Last week Poland got what Czechoslovakia had pleaded for in vain. Before a hushed, crowded House of Commons 70-year-old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, former arch-exponent of appeasing the dictators, announced that Britain and France were negotiating with Eastern European nations (understood to include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece) a tight system of military agreements to resist further Nazi aggression. In the meantime, moreover, the British Government was prepared to consider the Vistula, the river that flows through the Polish Corridor, just as much its frontier as it has long considered the Rhine. He added...
...doubts of its force and full intent. In a Foreign Office press conference next day one correspondent asked an ironic question: "Will the Government send Lord Runciman soon to Poland?" The London Times which often reflects the views of the British Government, found a multitude of reservations in the Chamberlain pledge: "The new obligation which this country has assumed does not bind Britain to defend every inch of the present frontiers of Poland. The key word in the declaration is not integrity but independence. The independence of every negotiating State is what matters...
With the whole world thus searching for loopholes in the British pledge, Septuagenarian Chamberlain this week rose again to speak in the House. In the diplomatic gallery U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky, French Ambassador André Corbin listened. On the floor the group of M. P.'s who had long scoffed at the Prime Minister's efforts to get along with Herr Hitler hung on his words...
...Chamberlain began mildly repeating his protest of last autumn that he was a "man of peace to the depth of my soul." He repeated his oft-expressed views that any attempt to dominate the world must still be resisted. Then he recalled Herr Hitler's pledge (to him and to the world) that Nazi Germany had no further territorial ambitions in Europe. Said the Prime Minister bluntly: "Those assurances have now been thrown to the winds absolutely." Said he in words that will either alter the course of European history or will for years be thrown back contemptuously into...