Word: chamberlaine
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...expectant grin. Other M. P.s, equally eager to squeeze into their House, which is much too small to seat all of them, were already jampacked around the door. They half-hoped that Leslie Hore-Belisha, recently ousted British War Secretary (TIME, Jan. 15), would clash with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the first really hot House of Commons debate since outbreak...
Like kippers, like cricket, like Punch, the annual feasts of the Lord Mayor of London are an established British institution. At them highly placed British officials are traditionally supposed to say something very important. Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made the two-mile journey across London from Downing Street to the financial district and, in the spacious Egyptian Hall of Mansion House, addressed "my Lord Mayor" and his 600 guests. The Prime Minister did not talk about the war; he talked all around the war, making an amiable goodwill tour among those whom Great Britain wants to have...
...home-front theme: "What are we to do to win and if possible, shorten this war? We must save; we must control imports; we must do without commodities that are not necessary; we must, if required, ration them in order that all may share and share alike." [Applause.] Mr. Chamberlain called the present stage of hostilities the "quiet of the calm before the storm," warned that Britain "shall have to face a phase of this war much grimmer than anything we have seen yet." He wound up: "In his recent message to the Pope, the President of the United States...
Macmillan, Reith & Duncan. Observers have expected for some weeks that Neville Chamberlain would gradually make a series of Cabinet changes and last week he followed up his unpopular ousting of Go-getter Hore-Belisha by a popular ousting of Lord Macmillan from the post of Minister of Information of which he has made such a mess (TIME, Sept. 18). To take over the Ministry of Information the Prime Minister appointed Sir John Reith, "The Man Who Made The British Broad casting Corp." and whose deep voice the world heard introducing the abdication broadcast of Edward VIII. A strict moralist, nonsmoker...
...Lord Halifax began, from time to time, to pinch-hit for Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden when Mr. Eden was away on diplomatic trips. Soon he was to do more than pinch-hit. On the same day that Adolf Hitler mocked Mr. Eden in a Reichstag speech, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decided to change Foreign Secretaries...