Word: chamberlaine
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...Brighton, afternoons messing about in the rose garden, outings with the children to Kew Gardens or the Zoo, drinks and darts in the pub around the corner. Being endowed with exaggerated poetic imagination, the nation got a mild case of "crisis stomach" worrying about bombing and gassing, about Mr. Chamberlain and what would happen after the war. But through it all ran a thin wire of pluck, which showed itself best in humor. Those were the days when a West End druggist put a placard in his window: "Bismuth as usual during altercations...
...failed in another job," interrupted Communist Willie Gallacher, referring to Lord Swinton's record of inactivity as Air Secretary under Baldwin and Chamberlain...
...isolationist plank out of the Republican platform. On May 1, when the Allies were still struggling in Norway, he sat in his favorite Manhattan haunt-the venerable National Arts Club on Gramercy Park-debating ways & means of converting pro-Ally sentiment into increased Allied aid. On May 6-when Chamberlain was on his way out over the Norwegian failure-White drafted a brief statement, left it with Eichelberger, returned to Emporia...
...when he swore he would destroy Great Britain. They not only symbolized, they constituted, the Britain which dominated world trade. They built and supported the British Fleet, protected the empire. London is where warlike Winston Churchill lives and leads the British people. But Birmingham is where tradesman-like Neville Chamberlain was born and bred to honor, multiply and defend the pound sterling...
...answer to all these questions still remained in,.the hands of Neville Chamberlain. Since the failure of Munich he has considered the war a personal conflict between himself and the German war lord who blighted his efforts for peace. Short of a political Putsch, which would probably cause dangerous disharmony at this time, Britain could only wait for him to change his mind...