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Just what was "Sir" Neville Chamberlain doing in the British House of Commons as reported in TIME for Nov. 6, p. 20? The last I heard he was still just plain Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Did TIME knight him or did TIME slip...
...there been less gun-firing and more tongue-clattering than last week. One after another, high-calibre speechmakers like Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, George VI, Albert Lebrun, Georgi Dimitroff, Clement Attlee, the Pope, Viscount Halifax, the King of the Belgians, the Queen of The Netherlands, Neville Chamberlain plus generals, dopesters and yes-men sounded off, until old David Lloyd George complained that you did not ask who was winning the war nowadays, but who had said what...
...Churchill admitted that he had not always agreed with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, although the two had "always been personal friends. But he is a man of very tough fiber," the First Lord added, "and I can tell you that he's going to fight as obstinately for victory as he did for peace...
Then says to Mr. Chamberlain...
...desperate the Allies thought Germany's position. And the attempted assassination of Führer Adolf Hitler in such a Nazi sanctum sanctorum as the Munich beer hall lent substance to much wishful thinking that Germany was near an internal revolution. In London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said that the Allies were sitting pretty because: 1) the repeal of the U. S. embargo opened to the Allies the "greatest storehouse of supplies in the world"; 2) The British-French pact with Turkey was a "powerful instrument for peace in southeastern Europe"; 3) the German-Soviet pact, while greatly benefiting...