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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain thought Lord Halifax's speech "remarkable" and in two of his own speeches, one before the House of Commons and the other at Birmingham, amplified the Foreign Secretary's sentiments by quoting his own speech of May 19. "We would not refuse to discuss any method by which reasonable aspirations on the part of other nations could be satisfied, even if this meant some adjustment of the existing state of things," said Mr. Chamberlain. Day later he repeated his offer: "We are ready to discuss around the table claims of Germany or any other...
President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley and Sir John Simon, an appeaser from way back, swelled the chorus, but the strangest note was struck by Sir Francis Lindley, onetime Ambassador to Japan, longtime foe of Soviet Russia, stanch friend of and host to Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Francis told the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs Committee that British prestige would rise if the projected pact with Russia fell through...
Though appeasement peeps from Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax were credited to papal efforts, Britain went forward last week with its plans to send Chief of the Central European Bureau of the Foreign Office William Strang to carry its latest message to Moscow in the tiresome seesawing of Anglo-Soviet bargaining. Though Russian vanity was nicked because Prime Minister Chamberlain did not visit the Kremlin in person, observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden...
...Neville Chamberlain for once ventured out without his umbrella. It rained...
Americans who feel sure they are somebody's descendants sometimes ask Anthony Richard Wagner, 30, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms (heraldic symbol-chaser) of the British royal household, to trace their British ancestry. Last week he announced a timely kinship: "Mr. Chamberlain and President Roosevelt are eighth cousins twice removed . . . descendants of a brother and sister of the early 17th Century. The brother came to America and the sister remained in England. The family where they join is the Cotymores, a Welsh family...