Word: chamberlaine
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Although he did not state categorically that he would go to war for them, African colonies were demanded by Herr Hitler in passage after passage. Mr. Chamberlain skipped any direct reference to this problem, but with characteristic obliquity remarked that if there were going to be any more international concessions, the dictators ought to do some conceding...
...enter upon that final settlement -we shall want to see some concrete evidence of a willingness, let us say, to enter into arrangements for, if not disarmament, at any rate a limitation of armaments." This did not mean that "appeasement" was to be abandoned-on the contrary, Mr. Chamberlain assured the House that "it is steadily succeeding"-but it was about as close as the Prime Minister has ever come to adopting the attitude of "deeds, not words" held by Anthony Eden and many of Chamberlain's Conservative and Opposition critics...
...Maria Quiñones de LeÓn, unofficial agent of Rebel Spain in France and longtime Ambassador to France of King Alfonso XIII, M. Berard would say only that he was going to Burgos to "settle some questions with good neighbors." Obviously referring to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement trips, he pointed slyly to an umbrella he was carrying, called it "standard equipment on the kind of trip I am making...
Remarks like these gave Neville Chamberlain "the impression that it was not the speech of a man who was preparing to throw Europe into another crisis." Not a few other popular spokesmen on both sides of the Atlantic failed to share this view...
...statesman should be known by one or two features, not for a variety. Monocle and orchid were priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...