Word: chamberlaine
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...Kaiser and former Ford Motor Co. employe, last week told A. P. Correspondent Louis Lochner that he had approached Ribbentrop in the autumn of 1938 as a secret and unofficial emissary of President Roosevelt. Roosevelt, said the prince, wanted to arrange a meeting with Hitler, Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain to avert the approaching war. Ribbentrop's only an swer to the prince's suggestion was a threat to have him thrown out of the Luftwaffe...
...most momentous, passed into history last week. It had sat for nearly ten years (Nov. 14, 1935, to June 15, 1945). It had passed 556 bills and 11,902 statutory rules and orders. It had been led by three Conservative Prime Ministers-Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill. It had seen the death of a King (George V), the abdication of another (Edward VIII), and the coronation of a third (George VI). It had seen Britain at its moral ebb (Munich and the days of appeasement), at the brink of disaster (Dunkirk and the blitz) and at the peak...
Plans for the evacuation were made before Munich, and they were being carried out as Chamberlain made his declaration of war speech. In a single week 2,000 pictures were removed in 64 special railway container vans-first to country houses and museums; then, after widespread raids began, to the Welsh caves. The caves were air-conditioned, equipped with a single-track narrow railway, and wired with a burglar alarm system...
...successors-men like Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma-were pushed into the background by swashbuckling generals and admirals, like Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo, Isozoku Yamamoto. Hirohito's most intimate counselors in the Imperial Household, nobles like the Marquis Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and ex-Grand Chamberlain Kantaro Suzuki (now Premier), were denounced by chauvinistic young officers as bad influences around the throne. Some of them were murdered in the bloody mutiny...
...September, he enticed Britain's aging, fatuous Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Munich. There the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany as the price of "peace in our time." In March 1939, Hitler occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia. A few days later, he took Memel from Lithuania. In April he made territorial demands on Poland...