Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, speaking in the House of Commons, served notice that Britain would tolerate no "threat to vital interests of France, from whatever quarter it came." Any threat, he said, would "evoke the immediate cooperation of this country." It was the strongest pledge of aid to France yet made by Mr. Chamberlain...
Wary British officials declined comment until the President's reported words were confirmed (which they emphatically were not). There were suspicions that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Government, still bent on appeasing the dictators, welcomed U. S. bolstering less enthusiastically than France...
...have had time to examine with care every phrase in [Hitler's speech]. ... It touched upon a great many topics and covered a wide field," said the Prime Minister, in a voice so low that diplomats in the gallery had to crane to catch his words. But Mr. Chamberlain had apparently taken time enough to comb out of Hitler's formless harangue every conciliatory crumb of comfort it contained. These he singled out for special praise. "I very definitely got the impression," the Prime Minister went on, "that it was not the speech...
GREAT BRITAIN Parliament met last week for the first time since the Christmas recess. The first thing the House of Commons wanted to hear was what Neville Chamberlain had to say about what Adolf Hitler had said to the Reichstag the day before (TIME, Feb. 6). The Great Appeaser did his best...
Although he did not state categorically that he would go to war for them, African colonies were demanded by Herr Hitler in passage after passage. Mr. Chamberlain skipped any direct reference to this problem, but with characteristic obliquity remarked that if there were going to be any more international concessions, the dictators ought to do some conceding...