Word: chamberlaine
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...Unofficial expression by Neville Chamberlain of his resolve to persuade the House of Commons to vote national military conscription in the United Kingdom...
...Channel steamer going over to France last week Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax had a thoroughgoing tossing about. On deck Mr. Chamberlain nearly did a split and the long lean Foreign Secretary got a buffeting (see cut). The diplomatic traveling companions had an easier trip back two days later, the day the King signed his parchment. It was, of course, the Prime Minister who "advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency...
...elevator in Paris' Hotel Meurice is frivolous. It looks as much like a gondola as an elevator can. Into it one evening last week stepped two aged Britons-Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax. They alighted at an upper floor and proceeded to the suite of the man who used to be their King-Emperor, now His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor...
After 22 minutes of talk, during which the four reportedly agreed that the "exiled" Duke would return to England in January, he and his lady in March, that he might take on some governor-generalship. Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax withdrew. They returned to the British Embassy where their ladies had been awaiting them...
...London Mrs. Neville Chamberlain reluctantly admitted that she had sent one of her husband's old shirts to a U. S. shirt collector. Said she: "If it gets about that 1 am giving away his clothes there would be no end to it. Why, he would very soon have no clothes left...