Word: chamberlaine
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...Chamberlain is a man of rigid competency. Such men have their uses in conventional times or in conventional positions . . . but they are lost in an emergency or in creative tasks at any time." The times Neville Chamberlain came upon as Prime Minister were not conventional ones. They saw superannuation and complacency go down before threadbare desperation, Christian morality and capitalist economy succumb to the hungry rule of tooth and claw. They saw Anschluss, Munich, Prague, Poland, Norway...
...Neville Chamberlain's vein of self-sufficient obstinacy made him believe he could cope with them and made the desperate, traumatic old Empire believe in him, while Adolf Hitler repeatedly proved him wrong. It would not be too fantastic for Hitler to have hastened last week's invasion of the Low Countries in an effort to take advantage of the Cabinet crisis, to keep Chamberlain in power. If that was his intention, Britain for once had fooled him. Without Chamberlain, Hoare, Simon and other appeasers, she turned at last to face her destiny...
...Kedgeree of Kidneys), Savoy Chef Latry (Fried Swedes; Pickled Swedes*); Mrs. Neville Chamberlain (Fish and Leek Pudding...
...last week in London Webb Miller lunched with Fellow Veteran Raymond Daniell of the New York Times, covered Parliament's acrid session on Chamberlain's failure in Norway, told his office he was leaving for his country home at Cobham. In an inky blackout, Miller's train gathered speed out of Clapham Junction station. He opened the door of his railway compartment-or somehow it came open-and Webb Miller pitched out to his death on the railway tracks...
...Nazi news bureau, tried to improve on his death. It asserted that he was murdered by Britain's secret service because he was increasingly critical "described Chamberlain as ... 'tired' . . . 'uneasy' . . . 'unconvincing...