Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominations: the only possibility is Hideous Hitler. I hate his stinking guts, but 1938 was his-if there be any argument, let it come from Sucker Chamberlain...
...about Chamberlain for the Man of the Year ? Singlehanded he has reduced Great Britain from a first-class to a third-class power. KENNETH BROWN...
...month after the Munich agreement Prime Minister Chamberlain got a 345-to-138 vote of confidence from the Commons after outlining his revised foreign policy as follows. Britain must be prepared to accept almost unlimited extension of Germany's influence in East Europe, Japan's in East Asia. But, just as "there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade" with East Europe, there was room for Britain and Japan in China. "China," said the Businessman Prime Minister, "cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital...
...Chiang Kai-shek is fighting a war and he has less interest than Mr. Chamberlain in long-range economic ideas about China. The Generalissimo flatly told Ambassador Sir Archibald that the loss of Canton was attributable to China's misplaced confidence in Britain...
More important than this speculation is the evidence that Britain is joining in resisting Hitler. Just possibly Chamberlain is not the villain he is generally presumed to be;--just possibly he has not sold out the whole of Eastern Europe. When the Rumanian ruler visited 10 Downing Street, he asked for a loan of $125,000,000 to case the weight of German economic pressure; in the light of yesterday's abrupt and vigorous purge, it may well be guessed that he received this--or equivalent aid. If so, the Munich Pact may merely have marked another surrender to expediency...