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...very much surprised to read in TIME, Dec. 5 that Mrs. Chamberlain had sent an old shirt of Mr. C's to a shirt collector in the U. S. I was surprised because after what happened at Munich, I doubted very much that he had one left...
...Long Island, about 70 miles from Franklin Roosevelt's Hyde Park. *In Miami last week, Columnist Walter Winchell quoted vacationing Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy to the effect that Charles Lindbergh passed on his gleanings to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the instance of Mr. Kennedy; not, as previously reported, through or at the request of Nancy Astor's "Cliveden...
Most sympathetic foreign reaction to the Roosevelt message came from Britain. British Broadcasting Corp. aired the full text for its own listeners. Salient passages were also sent into Germany, Italy and France during the nightly "straight news" period from the powerful Daventry transmitter. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who has been soundly scored for months by many Britons for not saying what Mr. Roosevelt did, jumped on the Washington speech for a political free ride. He adopted the Roosevelt sentiments about the aggressor nations...
...press of other nations, varying with the degrees of Government control over them, carried the speech complete, summarized or emasculated. German news-sheets professed to be astonished at Mr. Chamberlain's endorsement of the Roosevelt attack, concluded that the British Prime Minister is now taking orders from Washington. "President Roosevelt apparently expects every Englishman to do his duty," gibed the Berliner Boersen-Zeitung. One German leader to take public note of the fact that the U. S. is now one of the Nazis' chief opponents was Karl Kaufmann, political leader of Hamburg, who warned that...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, enjoying a quiet post-New Year holiday at the home of Lord Iveagh in Ely, Cambridgeshire, suddenly packed his bags and hurried to London last week. Government spokesmen explained that "bad weather" had forced Mr. Chamberlain to return. Indeed it had. The Prime Minister had hurried back to keep a close watch on the political bad weather which his policy of "appeasement" is now experiencing in Britain...