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This was too much for Laborite Arthur Greenwood, who had helped bring down the Chamberlain Government but lost his War Cabinet post in the last shakeup. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is not only the leader of the Conservative Party. He is the Prime Minister of a nation united in a great purpose, but to make major claims for his party in its share in victory before victory is won may shake belief in our fundamental unity and give comfort to the enemy...
...radio also kept the Kittredges in a constant state of manic depression. "Neither [Christina] nor Canby was surprised when Hitler took Bohemia and Moravia, for this was what they had predicted when Chamberlain came back from Munich," but "they were numbed." They were shattered when "President Roosevelt recognized Franco the moment Madrid fell-like a man who has taken a physic, as Canby said, and can't wait to get to the bathroom...
Grigg & Llewellin. Outside the War Cabinet ranks, two of Winston Churchill's Cabinet changes were striking. He ousted War Secretary Captain David Margesson, onetime Tory, whip who got out the votes for the Chamberlain appeasement Government, replaced him with a man who thus became the only permanent civil servant in modern times to reach the Cabinet without first being elected to Parliament or admitted to the peerage-Sir Percy James Grigg, Permanent Under Secretary of State in the War Office. Solid, profane, 51-year-old "P. J." Grigg is known as "the toughest man in the Civil Service...
...time of crisis such as England has not known since 1066, Dr. Temple is the right man to head the Church. He was one of the very few British leaders bold enough and clear-sighted enough to denounce the surrender at Munich promptly and openly. He condemned Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy as "sheer opportunism," proposed calling "a Congress of Europe" to discuss orderly treatment of the problems of World War I treaty revision. In 1939 he advocated postwar Federal Union...
...Author Oppenheim was born at the right time, he made the same mistake as his age-he did not die at the right time. Shortly before Neville Chamberlain began commuting to Germany, Oppenheim and his wife bought the Domaine of Notre Dame, a small, hill-hugging, seaward-looking piece of Provence which they had long loved and where they expected to end their days. They were growing old. Then something happened which would never happen in a well-contrived Oppenheim novel-the Nazis swarmed into northern France. The refugees swarmed into southern France. It was like a badly directed...