Word: chamberlaine
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...including Britain and France, as far as he was concerned-Mr. Hitler wondered what all the shooting was about on the Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague, Herr Hitler turned his back on his old "Blood and Soil" act and began talking about war ending with "only losers...
Even before Herr Hitler proposed that "the leading nations . . . come together to draw up, accept and guarantee a statute on a comprehensive basis which will insure for them all a sense of security," Neville Chamberlain had practically turned him down. "No mere assurances from the present German Government," said he, "could be accepted...
...were to be a peace by negotiation, where would the principals meet? Presumably some neutral country would supply the hotel room and presumably it would best be accomplished by doing the negotiating quietly and then springing the deal. Who would the principals be? Not Hitler, not Daladier, not Chamberlain. They could not meet anywhere obscurely, for one thing, and the Munich aura hangs too heavily over their heads...
This week, like a Japanese samurai who feels himself dishonored, the Ministry committed harakiri. Its regional offices disbanded, the staff in London prepared for wholesale dismissals. A skeleton Ministry hoped to carry on as a propaganda agency; but Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was expected to announce that a new department would censor news dispatches and issue Government communiques...
...Schooling makes youth discontented: 40% of U. S. youths, says John Chamberlain, are out of school and jobless, growing "ugly and morose...