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April 8). Neville Chamberlain shakily confessed that a National Government could be formed "under another Prime Minister, though not under myself. . . . My duty was plain. . . . You and I must rally behind our new leader...
...week's end Prime Minister Churchill announced his War Cabinet of five: Conservatives Churchill, Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, Laborites Attlee and Greenwood. For himself Mr. Churchill took the title of Defense Minister as well as Prime Minister. Lord Halifax kept his job as Foreign Secretary, Chamberlain was given the sinecure post of Lord President of the Council. Major Attlee became Lord Privy Seal, Arthur Greenwood Minister "Without Portfolio. Thus, the two new Cabinet members and discredited Mr. Chamberlain, though responsible for conduct of the war, were relieved of major administrative duties...
...Britain: "If you ask what is our policy, it is to wage war by sea, land and air with all our might," said Winston Churchill. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." The House gave him a 381-to-0 vote of confidence and Neville Chamberlain smiled a tight-lipped smile...
...Property. Although Prime Minister Churchill included his predecessor in his War Cabinet, the public career of Neville Chamberlain was all but ended when he surrendered his seals of office, the most spectacular failure in English political history since Palmerston...
When Kipling was singing the glories of Empire in India, Neville Chamberlain was painstakingly trying to raise sisal on the thin soil of Andros Island in the Bahamas, to recoup his family's fortunes. When his father, Old Joe Chamberlain, as Colonial Secretary, was working to bring the Boers to terms, Neville was learning the hardware business in Birmingham and interesting himself in health work. The age of Victoria molded him into a typical Englishman of his time-not a Kipling Englishman, but a Galsworthy Soames Forsyte. Neville Chamberlain's mind was once described as "the type which...