Word: chamberlaine
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...jeered at his party as a "Salvation Army which took to its heels on the day of judgment." What he felt for many of them, especially the office-hungry respectable bureaucrats of the trades unions, was nothing but a fine, aristocratic disdain. He raged not only against Baldwin and Chamberlain ("that dusty soul") but also against men who should have been his own comrades, like Trades Union Chief Sir Walter Citrine. He "suffers from files," Bevan said contemptuously...
...managerial role in human affairs. Criticism was his long suit. Intellectual disdain kept his far-left course from Communist involvement. After a visit to Russia, he quipped, "We were slaves to the past; they were slaves o the future." And when war came, he demanded that the "undertaker" Chamberlain go, and called for his Tory enemy Churchill to take power...
Unchanging Ritual. John XXIII was one of the most modern of Popes; his death was marked by ceremonies that have scarcely changed in hundreds of years. Carrying the traditional gold-tipped staff, Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella, the Vatican chamberlain and chief executive of the Roman Catholic Church until a new Pope is elected, took custody of the gold Fisherman's ring that the Pope used for sealing documents; it was later broken and the pieces buried with John's body. To those in the room, Aloisi Masella spoke the ritual words: "Vere Papa mortuus est [The Pope...
...Beaverbrook is a born raconteur with a novelist's ear for intimate dialogue, and he peppers his chronicle with anecdotes, gibes, and Maxims that must be the despair of his gossip columnists. Of Austen Chamberlain, he writes cuttingly: "He always played the game, and always lost...
Beaverbrook's most memorable anecdote concerns a crucial dinner party at which Chamberlain, "the most important and impressive guest," was expounding on Ireland. "Only one detail was going wrong," writes Beaverbrook. "The butler was obviously tight." Furiously, their hostess scribbled a note and handed it to the butler, who put it "on a big and beautiful salver and, walking unsteadily to Austen Chamberlain, with a deep bow presented the message." It read: "You are drunk-leave the room at once...