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Political Career: Elected to Parliament in 1931 for a Bedfordshire seat that he has held ever since. As elegant backbencher he praised Franco, Mussolini and Hitler, joined the Friends of Franco, and overenthusiastically defended Munich ("Hitler could absorb Czechoslovakia and Britain could remain secure"). When Churchill replaced Chamberlain and obviously had little relish for Lennox-Boyd's views, he joined the coastal navy, but continued to show up in the House of Commons every time his escort vessel touched a Channel port. He caught the eye of the late Oliver Stanley, an imperialist Tory who was rethinking Britain...
...Edward Chamberlain, the "victimized" Mountie, probably saw Bert Lahr in the movie version of Rose Marie. His Irish accent isn't specially consistent, but he has all the sweeping charm and confidence of the Northwest hero. Janice Thresher, as his ever-dithering wife, does well to play her role completely valiantly, because it is important that she never lapse into obvious contempt for what she is trying to spoof. Joe Hudak's leers, in characterizing the villain, have an ambiguity which cleverly both underscore the mock melodrama and cynically comment on it. His violence and forcefulness have a very convincing...
...nowhere does the exuberance and vitality of Kirkland come to such a focus as in one individual--superintendent Eddie Chamberlain. Seldom is the office empty when he is on duty. For though Eddie, like all superintendents, must be a policeman, he is a policeman on the side of the students. "Now cut out throwing those snowballs or I'll have to take your name," he shouts from the window in his Irish brogue. But somehow the names never get taken...
Perhaps the most cutting passages that Beaverbrook allowed into the Express were those reminding readers of his support of Chamberlain's appeasement policy. As late as Aug. 14, 1939, Driberg noted, the Express predicted that "Hitler will keep the peace this year." Beaverbrook, recalling that Driberg then worked for him, was able to drop the footnote-"Mr. Driberg in the Daily Express, Aug. 26, 1939: 'My tip: no war this crisis...
...last week's New York meeting of the American Physical Society, Dr. Owen Chamberlain of the University of California showed a drawing of films exposed to antiprotons...