Word: chamberlaine
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...appeasers," of Britain and France, he had nothing but scorn. He recalled that British and French statesmen (such as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Premier Edouard Daladier) had once glorified "the successes of the ill-starred Munich agreement," and now he questioned whether they had really changed at heart. Some correspondents wondered if the Soviet's price for Russian cooperation with France and Britain was the political heads of Appeasers Chamberlain and Daladier...
...Party Congress at Southport was the expulsion of Sir Stafford Cripps, tall, thin, wealthy, inconsistent, indiscreet ''Red Squire" of Filkins, Labor's ablest parliamentary debater and leader of Labor's intellectual leftwing. Last January Sir Stafford proposed a Popular Front of Laborites, Communists, Liberals, anti-Chamberlain Conservatives, broke Party discipline when he sent out his proposals to Labor Party offices after Labor's executive committee rejected it. Said the London Daily Express: "The Socialist Party will be blowing out its brains if it expels Sir Stafford...
Internal harmony restored, Labor then jumped with ineffectual vigor on Prime Minister Chamberlain, damned his delay in concluding a defensive pact with Russia, denounced his policy in Palestine by a vote of 890-to-2. But it accepted conscription lying down. And although it began preparations for a general election, probably this autumn, observers noted with Sir Stafford gone it had no popular leader likely to lead Labor to a national victory, that no Labor Party Congress since its earliest days had attracted so little attention, that even a small conference of rebellious Conservatives like Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden...
...view of the difficulties under which rescue operations had to be conducted, Mr. Chamberlain had no criticisms to make against the Royal Navy. But he promised a public investigation...
...Neville Chamberlain tried to look like a statesman-imperturbable-but inwardly he was rubbing his hands; he was sure that he had avoided a war which would have been bad business, had got gracefully out of an embarrassing moral obligation to the Czechs, had thrown a cheap sop that would convert a troublesome fellow into a reasonable man with whom Chamberlain could henceforth make profitable connections in this best of all possible worlds...