Word: chamberlaine
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...Japanese regard as the Son of Heaven emerged from his walled and moated palace for the first time since the conquerors had landed in his country. He wore a cutaway, striped trousers, a wing collar, a top hat. He climbed into an old but immaculate Daimler. His Imperial Grand Chamberlain sat reverently facing him on a jump seat...
...defeat at Pearl Harbor, already twice investigated and shortly to be reviewed once more, this time by a Congressional committee, was still a live political and military issue. Last week, in an article by John Chamberlain, one of its editors, LIFE added a new note to the political side. Said Chamberlain...
...Dewey was in a position," wrote Chamberlain, "to charge that the President had 'betrayed' the interests of the U.S. in failing either to forestall or mitigate an attack for which we were . .. not yet ready. The political impact of such a charge . . . might well have landed Dewey in the White House...
When Neville Chamberlain flew to Berchtesgaden to placate Adolf Hitler in September 1938, he upset the plans of top-ranking German officers. They were getting ready to arrest Hitler...
...when the coup seemed completely assured of success, London announced the umbrella-toting Prime Minister's impending visit to Hitler's mountain. Halder, shaken by this dramatic evidence of the Führer's political sagacity, called off the plot, thereafter toed the Hitler line. Later, Chamberlain's policy was defended as giving Britain time to prepare. Halder's statement indicated that it was Germany that got the time...