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Next year he announced that he was "too old and too busy to continue my career as a hurdler." In 1935 he was re-elected to Parliament, became a Baldwin 30 and Chamberlain man. In 1938, supporting Munich, he said: Britain should be "big enough to be above a mud-slinging match." In Bermuda nighttime Hamilton will be a sight for Lord Burghley to see. Its blacked-out, coral streets are packed with residents, visitors, soldiers. & sailors on shore leave. There is practically no civilian automobile traffic, and crowds too big for the sidewalks mill into the streets. Hotspots serve...
Died. Bob, black cat, No. 10 Downing Street's much-photographed "lucky" mascot; in London. He crossed the path of the late Neville Chamberlain during the Munich crisis, later made friends with Winston Churchill...
...controlled Saigon radio got its foot in its mouth. Commentator Captain Kahn insisted that the resignation "of one man from the Italian Government makes no difference. The resignation of Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister did not alter the British will to fight...
...limb that might lose the Government votes. Churchill was an ardent supporter of the R.A.F. but not always well informed on German air rearmament. When presented with an awkward question, Ramsay MacDonald, as Prime Minister, explained that he could do nothing about air, and sent Londonderry to Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was interested only in finance. Sir John Simon thought the air force a nuisance. When asked about the R.A.F., Stanley Baldwin replied with talk about cricket, rowing or books. Those years were a period of despondency for Lord Londonderry. Says he: "There was nothing I could do at the time...
...United States. But I would remind the reader that the problems Mr. Hoover discusses are bone of my bone as well as of his, and that in our common peril I believe it is my right to differ with Mr. Hoover in print as I did with Mr. Chamberlain over Munich...