Word: chamberlaine
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...Lord Beaverbrook, into his inner War Cabinet. The official announcement said that "for the time being Lord Beaverbrook will continue to be Minister of Aircraft Production," intimating clearly that other Cabinet changes would follow. Most Britons hoped that this meant that Lord Beaverbrook was being eased into ailing Neville Chamberlain's vaguely defined position as Lord President of the Council...
Symbol first of appeasement and then of easygoing armament, the onetime Prime Minister has for weeks been under great popular pressure to get out. But Chamberlain is still head of the Conservative Party, controls the dominating Conservative bloc of 374 in the House of Commons. Last week, however, suffering aftereffects of an intestinal operation, he had an excellent explanation should he fail to return to his office...
Most eminent spokesman for the anti-Chamberlain camp last week was Novelist-Historian H. G. Wells. In the London News Chronicle he also urged the removal of Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, proposed that the whole Foreign Office be reorganized into a small committee of foreign relations, including Churchill, Labor Minister Bevin, senior career diplomatist Sir Robert Vansittart, Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton and old David Lloyd George. His Wellsian appeal to Chamberlain and followers: "Let us not recriminate. It is just because I believe that you are honorable and patriotic men that I implore...
...Neville Chamberlain, formerly Prime Minister of Great Britain, after undergoing an abdominal operation, expected to keep him from his office for two weeks; in a London hospital...
Nazi propaganda in Spain has never ceased. Last week in Madrid cinema theatres Adolf Hitler was loudly cheered and Neville Chamberlain derisively whistled at when the Nazi film Baptism of Fire was released "against British warmongers." With the fall of France, Germans in & out of uniform went hustling into Spain, where they were seen everywhere last week. Some went to villages behind Gibraltar, possibly to man the big guns covering it, installed by Nazis during the Spanish Civil War. Adolf Hitler also sent the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle to Francisco Franco and waited...