Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mrs.Chamberlain, who went out during the Crisis and joined at Westminster Abbey in public peace prayers, this week at No. 10 Downing Street continued her prayers with deep piety. If only the world can be made quite definitely more like Birmingham, the House of Chamberlain will consider this much better than if one of its sons had turned out to be a Napoleon or a Lenin-or an Eden...
...naval supremacy over Germany, but the Führer signed (and probably is not stupid enough to break) the treaty under which his navy is restricted to 35% of Mother England's (TIME, June 24, 1935). That was a trade. The gain to Britain, which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended, and will be for years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone...
...good to have a giant's strength," Neville Chamberlain keynoted several weeks before the Czechoslovak Crisis arose: "It is tyrannous...
...weeks has left 1,700 Arabs, Jews, British soldiers and police dead or wounded. Into this bloody mess last week stepped the figure of Seyyid Tawfik al Suwaidi, Foreign Minister of Iraq. Invited to London by the British, Seyyid Tawfik conferred last week with the only Jew in the Chamberlain Cabinet, War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, and with Scottish Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald. Seyyid Tawfik then proffered a plan. Ignoring Britain's original idea of partition, he proposed that Palestine be set up as an independent state under British influence, similar in status to Iraq, that further immigration...
When President Eduard Benes, after yielding to the Munich demands, obtained by his last appeal to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain an immediate British loan of $50,000,000 to Czechoslovakia, he had played his last card...