Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amidst all the celebration there came not one indication that Dictator Mussolini intended to carry out the solemn promise he was said to have made to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain less than a month ago: to withdraw his troops from Spain as soon as the Rebels won the war. On the contrary, there was evidence aplenty that Il Duce intended to use the threat of these troops to gain concessions from France...
Changes. Growing British resentment against this muddling contains enough dynamite to blow up the Chamberlain Cabinet and last week the Prime Minister took the long-expected steps to snuff the fuses. He moved his friend, slow-moving Sir Thomas Inskip, from the post of Minister for the Coordination of Defense, where everyone agreed he had been a first-class failure. Chosen to succeed him was Lord Chatfield, recently retired from active service. It was perhaps the most popular Cabinet move Mr. Chamberlain has ever made...
More "Oi!" The Cabinet shakeup, indicating that at least Mr. Chamberlain intends to energize the rearmament drive, is expected to rally public support for the Government's vast Voluntary National Service registration scheme, inaugurated last week by the Prime Minister with a radio chat from his high armchair at No. 10 Downing Street...
...Motto: Defense." Clearly Mr. Chamberlain had swapped the unpopular nag of appeasement for the glossy war-horse of rearmament, a wise move in view of the fact that 1939 is almost certainly a General Election year...
...Italy, 28-year-old Battista Rocca walked out to take the air on the town's main street. Promenader Rocca had a furled umbrella crooked over his arm, and not a stitch besides. To the horrified policemen who arrested him, he explained with dignity: "I'm Mr. Chamberlain...