Word: chamberlaine
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Just before leaving London to visit Paris this week, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that he is once more appealing to Adolf Hitler to continue the Munich work of "appeasement" in general. In so doing he revealed what may yet prove to be the most important international event since Munich, the efforts which the British Government is making to find a home for Germany's Jews. Having queried all the colonies, he revealed that the Governor of Tanganyika has put at his disposal 50,000 acres on which to settle Jewish men, their families...
...striking indication that under the impact of civilization's horror at Nazi pogroms the mills of diplomacy had at last begun to grind a useful grist. Mr. Chamberlain also said that if new surveys are reassuring 10,000 square miles in British Guiana may be leased "on generous terms" to refugees. Said he: "His Majesty's Government hope that other countries...
...Neville Chamberlain chose she could give Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's My Day a brisk run for its lineage. The wife of the Prime Minister observed early this month as she opened the London Sunday Times National Book Fair: ''I understand from the press that my chief occupation" is darning the Prime Minister's socks...
That is not correct; my reading, like my husband's, is very wide. I can tell you that I have learned the old Greek poets, in their translations, for as long as I can remember.'' Mrs. Chamberlain went on to confide to the book folk that she is thinking of writing a book about the old buff brick house at No. 10 Downing Street, the most famed address in the Empire. She announced: "It will begin with its first occupant, a daughter of Charles II, and finish with the black cat. That black cat has appeared...
...Chamberlain and me, a parcel came for the black cat-two Dover soles...