Word: chamberlaine
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...houses a year for five years. The personality was the conference's dominating president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 57, brilliant daughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. A great friend of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Lady Violet said: "As the Tories once sheltered behind the Chamberlain umbrella, they will at the next election try to shelter behind the Churchill tank. . . . I would cut off my right hand for the Prime Minister, but I would rather die than have that right hand vote Tory...
...vast American armada which seized Eire in 1945 invaded Britain and liberated the island from the Nazi domination. . . . The Chamberlain Government returned to London from its exile in Ottawa. . . . The old Parliament reassembled for the first time since that day in 1942 when Hitler had sat in the Speaker's chair and Mr. James Maxton [sharp-tongued Labor M.P.] had been shot dead as he rushed forward to brain the Führer with the Mace...
...Government in Exile. The reply to a speech by Chamberlain, conveniently resurrected, was given by Lord Winterton, "supported by disorderly cheers and a playful shot toward the ceiling by an enthusiastic resister." Said he: "He [Chamberlain] has spent the last five years in Ottawa and Washington. We have heard his voice on the BBC. It was indeed a voice from afar! I rise to say with respect that his speech shows he is just a little out of touch with public opinion here (cheers and shots from the galleries). . , . We must now entrust to untired minds and fresh bodies...
Then the man who had co-authored the Hoare-Laval deal, who had served Appeasers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain 1) praised the British-Soviet and Franco-Soviet 20-year treaties; 2) suggested that they be supplemented by air defense agreements; 3) proposed that the United Nations should agree to a bill of rights providing for religious freedom and forbidding imprisonment without trial...
Died. Geoffrey Dawson, 70, small, toweringly conservative retired editor of the thundering London Times; in London. Before the Times's recent liberal trend, Dawson set its editorial tone for a quarter-century. Under him, the paper supported the Chamberlain Government's appeasement of Hitler in the Sudetenland, changed its banner for the first time since 1788 (it went back to the banner...