Word: chamberlaine
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...some 500 Members, 200 privileged private citizens, two dozen diplomats, a score of British and foreign correspondents. About to begin was one of the gravest debates in the history of the world's greatest oratorical body. On its outcome depended the fate of Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet and perhaps (some thought) the fate of the British Empire. Four days since, a beaten British Expeditionary Force had high-tailed out of Namsos, Norway...
...Prime Minister entered the House, looking even thinner of face than usual. At 3:47 the bulky frame of his First Lord of the Admiralty and longtime political enemy, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, appeared from behind the Speaker's chair. A minute later Mr. Chamberlain rose to explain to a hostile House the British failure in Norway. He had hardly begun when another old enemy made a perfectly timed entrance. The bronzed, white-maned picture of health at 77, David Lloyd George walked slowly along the Opposition's front bench and took his customary seat...
...Name of God, Go!" From the moment he got up to speak it was plain that self-righteous old Neville Chamberlain had lost his confidence. Taking heart from his nervousness, his opponents, in & out of the Conservative Party, punctuated his every sentence with boos, catcalls, cries of "You missed the bus." Up jumped the bewigged Speaker of the House to plead for order. Thereafter, for 57 minutes the Prime Minister droned on, protesting that Trondheim was not comparable to Gallipoli, explaining that the failure in Norway was caused by lack of airdromes and the speed of German troop movements, defending...
Personal Issue. When the House assembled that first afternoon nobody thought there was more than an outside chance of dislodging Chamberlain. An energetic show of confidence by the Prime Minister might have staved off a vote by the House. Labor and Liberals have only 197 seats to 418 for the Conservatives and their supporters, and Chief Party Whip Captain David Margesson has been able to keep many disgruntled "ginger group" Conservatives in line. But as the second day's debate began, it became plain that the Opposition sensed its advantage, would push it for all it was worth...
Labor's energetic Herbert Stanley Morrison, Leader of the London County Council and the man many Britons are watching as the dark horse who may yet run the country, led off for the Opposition, came out flatly with Labor's demand: that not only Mr. Chamberlain, but also his two old cronies, Air Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, must go. Cried...