Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was exactly the type of assurance Adolf Hitler has been giving with respect to Europe. Neville Chamberlain last week had the British Ambassador at Tokyo, Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, demand assurances from the Japanese government that British property in South China be respected...
...China watched breathlessly to see whether the Cantonese military leaders would resist Japan or waver in the allegiance which nearly all Chinese have shown to Chiang Kaishek, "The Great Unifier." His entourage last week put the blame on Neville Chamberlain, attributed the Japanese drive on Canton to collapse of British prestige at Munich and predicted that not only will the Cantonese fight but their resistance will so overextend Japan that it will cost...
Resolved, that this House approves the foreign policy of Neville Chamberlain is the subject for the afternoon...
...official Communist Party organ Pravda ("Truth") charged: "He [Lindbergh] had an order from English reactionary circles to prove the weakness of Soviet aviation and give Chamberlain an argument for capitulation at Munich in connection with Czechoslovakia. The bribed liar, Lindbergh, fulfilled the order of his masters. That explains everything!" Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, according to Pravda, were "cordially and sincerely received by the Soviet people" when they visited Russia in 1933, but last August "nobody invited him [to Russia] and if he was permitted to come it was because Americans had requested...
Captain Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, U. S. World War "Ace of Aces," named "the greatest living human being." His choice (for averting another World War): Neville Chamberlain. Meanwhile, Princeton University's 674 freshmen, by a one-vote margin over Adolf Hitler, chose the same man for the same title...