Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the unexpected presence in London last week of a cultured Balkan gentleman, it began to look as though Neville Chamberlain had discarded a winning hand before the showdown and might pick it up again...
Five weeks after the Munich Agreement, Prime Minister Chamberlain had told the House of Commons that Britain would have to recognize that in southeastern Europe "Germany must occupy the predominating position." But since then the heads of three European States have made significant visits to London. Scarcely had George II, King of the Hellenes, settled down for a brief stay in the British Capital before his ex-brother-in-law, Carol II of Rumania, arrived. Carol went on to Germany, but he had not been home a week before he began shooting Rumanian Nazis. And the elaborate gold dinner service...
These visitors had not gone to London just for pleasure. And they surely would not have gone for business if they considered their countries the exclusive trade territory of the Third Reich. That their missions had caused the Chamberlain Government to give its political and economic policies a second thought was evident. Significantly, Robert S. Hudson, secretary of Britain's Department of Overseas Trade, rose in the House of Commons last week, condemned the German barter trade methods in eastern Europe, and served notice that Britain would "fight and beat Germany at her own game...
...fruits of the Munich Pact has been the growing impatience of democratic statesmen with their own, unregimented, freedom-loving press. This impatience was testily expressed by Britain's Neville Chamberlain last month while replying to critics in the House of Commons. "It is not," he lectured, "one of the characteristics of the totalitarian States to foul their own nests...
British editors who print anti-Munich or anti-Chamberlain opinions were thus pointed at scornfully as nestfoulers. In France, where the journalistic roost is messy indeed because of the old French practice of outright bribes to newspapers, Premier Edouard Daladier was reported to have proposed to his Cabinet specific measures to "correct many of the evils existing under our unrestricted freedom of the press." Most French papers have accommodated the Government by suppressing the more unpleasant facts about the recent Nazi pogrom. A general toning down of all references to Adolf Hitler & Germany was last week believed to be part...