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...debaters were the familiar trio of Edouard Daladier, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler. The subject was the well-worn proposition: "Resolved, that the Allied cause is just." As usual, the speakers roamed far & wide from their subjects. The French Premier, for instance, got very bitter about the "madmen who rule at Berlin." The German Chancellor was also given to personal insults and mockery. The British Prime Minister meandered among the non-belligerents. All in all, last week's speeches were mainly pep talks for the home folks. Certainly this round in the European war of words did not change many...
Hitler sneaked into Berlin's Sportspalast to make a speech before a selected Nazi audience-his first since the November Munich bombing. The Führer was tough, but repetitious. About all he did was to sneer at Bible-toting "old Chamberlain" and bitterly assail "M. Daladier." "They wanted war; they shall have war!" shouted the Führer. thus officially ending the distinction between Germany's hostility to Great Britain and her sympathy for Britain's "tool," France...
...Neville Chamberlain evolved a sugarless, butterless "Downing Street cake...
...picture is distinguished by one of Sir Cedric Hardwicke's somewhat sepulchral interpretations of genteel skulduggery, and by the fact that a first cousin once removed of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Alan Napier, plays a drunken coal miner. That invisibility has its decencies too is suggested when the invisible man turns his back to the audience to remove his visible pants...
...There has been no denial of the prejudice felt in exalted circles against the holding of that post [War Secretary] by a man who was a Jew and who was the centre of the Goebbels propaganda. What circles got hold of the Prime Minister with these stories?" When Neville Chamberlain ignored this query, extreme Left Independent Laborite Jock McGovern jumped up and demanded: "Will the Prime Minister give a denial of that...