Word: chamberlaine
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...this point the Reynaud-Chamberlain mob, whose guts Mussolini despises, got tired of greasing Italy with talk about cooperation and compromise in the Mediterranean. In Sheffield one of Neville ("Hardware") Chamberlain's most formidable torpedoes, Economic Warrior Ronald Cross, turned on the heat. "We are plain-dealing and plain-speaking people," he said, "and we should like to know where we stand with Italy." If Italy is neutral, said he flatly, she will have to act like...
...found that 44% of Great Britain's people felt they were not getting all the news; only 40% were satisfied with what they got. Of these, 4% thought there was too much news: i. e., too much bad news. Blamed by most Britons was "the Government" or "Mr. Chamberlain." But whoever was blamed, the press took the consequences...
Then a young man (he was neither an old man, nor an international banker, nor a preacher, nor an old lady, nor yet an airplane manufacturer, nor an exporter to Japan, nor a Versailles potentate, nor one of Chamberlain's many friends, nor a news-paper reader, nor a flat-foot politicians, nor an undertaker) said...
...mind if I talk this over with my friends, who are neither old, nor international bankers nor preachers nor airplane manufacturer nor exporters to Japan nor Versailles potentates nor Chamberlain's friends nor newspaper readers nor flat-footed politicians nor undertakers...
...Spineless," quoth the friends of Chamberlain...