Word: chamberlaine
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...announcing that Lord Runciman will go to Prague this week-"not to arbitrate but to advise and mediate"-Britain's Prime Minister, grizzled Neville Chamberlain, set up peace machinery as original as the Non-intervention Committee France and Britain set up two years ago to keep the Spanish Civil War from becoming a general conflict. In entangling Britain in a dangerous European quarrel, the Prime Minister tried to preserve British isolation by explaining in the House of Commons that Lord Runciman will go to Prague with no official status, merely as a bifurcated animal representing no one but himself...
...Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Prague had "invited" Britain to send a mediator. Next day Prague officials said they had sent no invitation, added that of course they would "welcome" the Viscount. Leading French Newspundit Pertinax (André Géraud) bitterly deplored the creation of a situation in which both Prague and Paris will have to follow the lead of London. For most commentators agreed that British public opinion will never support the use of arms to aid Czechoslovakia if the recommendations of Lord Runciman are against...
...Paris political wisecrackers, recalling that Stanley Baldwin four years ago asserted that Britain's air frontier is the Rhine, chuckled that Chamberlain had moved the British frontier from the Rhine to the Danube...
Fortunately the confused reports in high European quarters had certain common denominators: 1) Everyone agreed that Chancellor Hitler, by means of an emissary, had assured Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Germany wants a "peaceful solution" of the Czechoslovak Question, not a war. 2) None doubted that in Paris the British had urged the French to help induce Prague to make to the Sudeten Germans the utmost concessions likely to avert war, short of destroying the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia. 3) It was certain that Mr. Chamberlain's quiet aversion for the Soviet Union, plus his long standing resolve to draw...
Istanbul learned with delight last week that the loan by which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hopes to win over the Mohammedan Turkish Dictatorship to the cause of Democracy is not to be $30,000,000 as at first announced (TIME, July 25) but $80,000,000. It is all to be spent by the Turks for armaments "Made in Britain." Turkish public opinion is being eased gently up to the prospect of a formal military alliance with Britain, and last week persuasive Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras declared with characteristic finesse: Imagine! Here is a country granting...