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Action was wanted in France, and so the Daladier Cabinet fell (see col. 2). Action was wanted in Britain, and the press put increasing pressure on Prime Minister Chamberlain to form a five-man War Cabinet, with Activist Winston Churchill as lord of land, sea and air forces (see p.22). The Allies were apparently coming to the conclusion that a war of "limited liability" had become a liability. If the next move were up to them; which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Eyes Turn Southeast | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Majesty's impatient Loyal Opposition in Parliament demanded action. Eloquent Laborite Herbert S. Morrison wanted "more vigor and liveliness" in war and diplomacy than he felt Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who turned 71 at week's end, has been giving. Retired Permanent Secretary to the Treasury Sir Warren Fisher was blunter. "We are up against the creed of the devil," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMATIC FRONT: Brenner Pass Parley | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Great Britain. In a terse two-minute speech in the House of Commons, Neville Chamberlain dryly repeated that somehow, some way Britain would have sent men had Finland asked for them. Up jumped Leslie Hore-Belisha. The Finns, he said, had repeatedly asked for both materials and men. It was shameful "to plead as an excuse a pure technicality." Prime Minister Chamberlain politely corrected his former War Secretary. Materials they had asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Post-Mortem on Peace | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Prime Minister Chamberlain agreed to air the whole progress of the war this week. Not a few commentators began predicting a thorough Cabinet shakeup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Post-Mortem on Peace | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...relish he discovered that the Empire's cannibals preferred black men instead of white. The whites tasted too salty. All the while he was gaining his superiors' confidence. Gloomily he expressed the fear that the British Empire might disintegrate before the onrush of "extreme nationalism." Prime Minister Chamberlain called that a "very brilliant and statesmanlike exposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Malcolm's Day | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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