Word: chamberlaine
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...treaty setting up the Irish Free State. In that treaty Britain retained, largely at Sea Dog Churchill's experienced insistence, the right to continue using three of R. N.'s bases on the new State's coasts. When, in 1938, old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and young Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald relinquished Britain's rights in these bases, even for wartime, Winston Churchill spoke hotly and prophetically. "The dark forces of the Irish underworld," he barked, "already tried to stab Britain in the back during the World War and [Prime Minister Eamon] de Valera would...
...Norman Church of St. Michael's, at Oldham, in Hampshire. England, a congregation of 14 countryfolk prayed last Sunday evening for the soul of Arthur Neville Chamberlain. The village vicar, the Rev. H. R. P. Tringham, took as the text of his sermon, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Said the vicar in his sermon: "No one labored more hard, or so spared himself rest, to obtain for you and me and for all fellow men the blessings of peace. Although it seemed a failure, it was a grand failure...
Even to some of Neville Chamberlain's neighbors, this seemed too charitable a judgment of the man who had just died beneath the camouflaged roof of a cottage near the church. For the grandeur of Neville Chamberlain's failure might be the grandeur of an Empire's fall. And its cause was not grandeur, or even breadth, of vision; its cause was narrowness of mind...
Nature had done nothing dramatic for Mr. Chamberlain. He was tall and stringy, with the distinction of being the only British statesman who could sing Negro spirituals (learned as a young man when he was trying to raise sisal in the Bahamas), and the biggest feet in the Cabinet. He also had gout and bunions. Clement Attlee once said that Chamberlain's smile reminded him of the silver handles of a coffin. A kindlier woman said his eyes were "cold and smiling, like a Scandinavian river...
Beaverbrook's Baxter writes a fortnightly London Letter for Maclean's, is rated in Canada as an unofficial spokesman for the Government. Two years ago, when Chamberlain capitulated to Adolf Hitler at Munich, Baxter believed with many another Briton that "never again would any dictator . . . dare to ask his people to face a world war." With all respect to such brilliant non-believers as his present chief, Winston Churchill, who was among those who refused to support Chamberlain's policy, Baxter wrote Maclean's: "It may seem a small thing for a group...