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...house at Doorn, put in a good supply of logs, a couple of left-handed saws (in case Benito visits) and commence writing a sequel to Mein Kampj entitled-you can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time but Mr. Chamberlain-only once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...time of testing. The peace at any price stand will not always be so popular as it now is. Therefore we must convince ourselves now that no war is a holy war, that we might be leading for another great double-cross, that we might be fighting Mr. Chamberlain's instead of democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHIFT INTO NEUTRAL | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...because of its past pluperfect grade performance and present eccentricity, most interest centred last week on the propaganda plant of the Scottish lawyer. When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy Britain's Minister of Information, he gave the 66-year-old peer one of the toughest, one of the most delicate, of Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to sift and relay war news after war news had already begun to come in. He had to establish censorship after censorable news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fact & Fiction | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...only correspondents in Great Britain were complaining of the war's coverage. In the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to face a barrage of questions from honorable members who were worried by the scarcity of news. Mr. Chamberlain promised that he would "try to deal with the matter." London's own newspapers, galled by the censorship yoke, were loudly critical. The London Times blamed the Ministry for "a series of muddles and blunders" which, said the Times, the Prime Minister did not deny. Said the News Chronicle: "News is flooding out of Berlin into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No News | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...World War II, King George VI and Prime Minister Chamberlain were quick to invoke God's blessings on their cause. Last week the Germans got around to doing the same. A prayer and a proclamation were issued by Dr. Friedrich Werner, who, in order to hold his job as head of the German Evangelical Church, must lick contemptuous Nazi boots. Excerpt from the prayer: "Bless our armed forces on land, sea and air. Bless our actions and labors on the German land and bless and protect our Führer as you have hitherto blessed and preserved him. ..." Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gott Sei Mit Uns | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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