Word: chamberlaine
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...assessing Britain's failure to prepare for war with Germany, Kennedy blamed such national leaders as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. But the British public, said Kennedy, was equally at fault: "I believe, as I have stated frequently, that leaders are responsible for their failures only in the governing sector and cannot be held responsible for the failure of a nation as a whole ... In 1930 and 1931 we blamed all the evils that this country was then suffering, from the drought to the World Depression, on Herbert Hoover. If we had continued to hold those beliefs, we would...
...defense, Gaitskell argued lucidly that a neutral, unilaterally disarmed Britain could only encourage Russia's "more aggressive elements" and "prove profoundly dangerous for world peace." To the left-wing slogan "No War over Berlin," Gaitskell replied forcefully that World War II had broken one year after Neville Chamberlain shrugged off Hitler's rape of Czechoslovakia-"a small nation that didn't matter very much...
...page from the Concordance to evoke the essence of Grandmother, just as Edith Schloss uses worn and faded materials for her nostalgic Dow Road and Stephan Durkee for his affecting Sale. The futurists' obsession with the automobile finds its echo in the car constructions of John Chamberlain. A painted Breakfast by Juan Gris plays parent to an assembled breakfast by Daniel Spoerri...
...solicitously helped his wife over craggy spots, won an affectionate smile by graciously passing on to her a bouquet of alpine flowers presented to him by a local botanist. Carried away by such uxorious behavior on the part of the man who once was a god, the chief Imperial chamberlain sighed sentimentally: "Just a sweet, middle-aged couple...
...crowned with laurels, without any apparent exertion on his part. He appeared honorably ineligible for the struggle of life." At Christ Church College, Oxford, Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville Chamberlain's eye and became his parliamentary private secretary-only to suffer obloquy later for having ridden with Chamberlain through the cheering crowds at Munich. In the 1945 Labor landslide, he even managed to lose his family's "safe" Parliament seat in Lanarkshire. In 1951, he went...