Word: chamberlaine
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...There is a reappearance of the feeling, unknown since Mr. Chamberlain's day, that the policies of the Government are something less than a full expression of the determination and capacities of the people...
...critics wondered, for example, about Arch-Tory War Secretary Captain H. D. R. Margesson, who had once been Neville Chamberlain's Jim Farley. They wondered about Arch-Tory Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, who had publicly declared that the time was not ripe for Britain to invade Europe. They wondered about Arch-Tory Aircraft Production Minister Lieut. Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, who had been accused of expressing the wish that the Germans and Russians would exterminate each other...
...United States' policy appeasement and wrist-slapping, brings up shades of Chamberlain at a time when we should abandon our present attitude for a definite warning to Japan backed up by the guns of our Pacific fleet. Our two-faced stand in the Far East will not help us in the least. From Tokyo yesterday came assurances that if we would like to make a few more concessions, a conflict with Japan could easily be avoided. These "concessions" would amount practically to a desertion of Great Britain. But we know that Japan will continue to act as she sees...
Died. Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, 76, Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church; in Vatican City. He succeeded Pius XI as Papal Nuncio to Poland (1921-27), negotiated the Concordat between the Vatican and the Polish Republic...
...Times has dropped its prewar Neville Chamberlain attitude it does not completely approve of that disturbing man Churchill. Suavely the Times scolds Churchill for hogging work, instead of sharing it, for failing to pick a successor in the event that "some accident of bus or bomb should suddenly remove him from the scene." After one such editorial Editor Geoffrey Dawson was warned that it would bring down a host of complaints. "That's all right," said he. "We don't mind a few complaints...