Word: chamberlaine
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...along the U-shaped table. There were the bemedaled Generals Montgomery and Alexander, who had led great armies under Winston Churchill's direction during World War II. There was quiet, modest Clem Attlee, his longtime colleague and longtime opponent. There, gracious and smiling, was the widow of Neville Chamberlain, the prewar Prime Minister whose errors Churchill redeemed but never condemned. There, still patient and distinguished with years and honors in his own right, was the Churchillian heir apparent, Sir Anthony Eden, and his 34-year-old wife, Churchill's niece Clarissa. There, along with the beautiful young Queen...
Eden's resignation made him the hero of the hour (though others since have unkindly said he had almost to be pushed into resigning). But he did not follow through: he was too loyal and too well-mannered to challenge his chief publicly, as Chamberlain pushed on to the folly of Munich. Eden kept his objections to himself, while the Nazis and Fascists gloated over the political passing of "Lord Eyelashes." But Churchill at least understood and mourned the lost opportunity. "There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender...
...almost a century), Eden made the picture pages as the Homburg-hatted glamor boy. As Europe tilted towards war, his earnestness won him a title that was half-admiring, half-contemptuous: "This formidable young man who loves peace so terribly." Then one February day in 1938, Eden told Neville Chamberlain: "There has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms with others rather than that others should make terms with us . . . I do not believe . . . in appeasement...
...late Robert A. Taft pointed out that while the Security Council is charged with maintaining "peace and security," this is not synonymous with maintaining justice. As an example of keeping the peace at the expense of justice, Taft cited Neville Chamberlain's agreement to give the Sudetenland to Germany. Taft called for the principle of justice under law to be substituted for the U.N.'s method of peacekeeping by expediency...
Most of the working women in London's Windmill Theater spend an extraordinary amount of time standing stock still. They have to. The Windmill is a burlesque house, and, by order of the Lord Chamberlain, nudes on the move are licentious; "living statues" are art. Among the Windmill's ladies, plump, brown-eyed Sheila Van Damm is a well-dressed exception. As the manager's daughter and part-time assistant, she is fully clothed during working hours, and even off duty she rarely stands still. Europe's champion woman motorist, Sheila spends every spare minute zipping...