Word: chamberlaine
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...should be obvious that we cannot call for "the best possible peace with Germany-yes, even a peace leaving Hitler in control of the continent." We cannot have such a peace because we can place no reliance on Hitler's word. Peace was attempted by Chamberlain and Daladier, and they failed. Events since Munich have served only to emphasize the untrustworthiness of Axis diplomacy. Mankind has faced this same problem at other times. The classic example is Napoleon. England signed a peace with him in March, 1802. That peace was formally breached fourteen months later, but it had never been...
...eleven-car special train on which he fled ran a gantlet of pro-Nazi Iron Guardist gunfire at Timisoara railroad station. Carol had jumped into a bathtub while bullets smashed windows (see cut), killed an engineer, wounded the station master. At the same time, Carol's former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu had flung his foppish self under a table. Beyond the frontier Carol gave the train crew $2 apiece. One man refused...
...last week the Spanish Government had apparently reached no decision on the Rumanian Government's request that Mme. Lupescu and ex-Lord Chamberlain Udarianu be sent back to Bucharest to stand trial, respectively, for the "murder" of No. 1 Iron Guardist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the looting of the Rumanian treasury. The Rumanian "party" were apparently still under genteel Spanish detainment. Carol had been invited to Cuba...
...Duty (1937) was hailed and reprinted in the Anglophobe Hearst press; his Blood Is Cheaper Than Water (1939) glibly tracked the U. S. "war party" from J. P. Morgan's to Communist headquarters and back. Last week Quincy Howe, his Anglophobia somewhat chastened since France and Chamberlain fell, sped his mercurial mind over the whole field of war news...
...friends had said of him: "Neville is a man to die with, but not for." Chamberlain had died for his country, in his own queer, lonely way, while his country still fought for its life. It was too soon to know whether the life and death of Neville Chamberlain was the tragedy of a man and a class, or of a nation, an empire and a race...