Word: chamberlaine
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...week official London was considering whether it may be "obliged by circumstances" to grant the Rightists diplomatic recognition. 2) The panic in Soviet Russia over wholesale "treason" and the shaky position of the French franc (see p. 17) were major indirect factors working against the Spanish Leftists. 3) Mr. Chamberlain's speech gave the impression that he thought Mussolini & Hitler were right, from their points of view, in thinking that now was the time, before Britain has completed her rearmament, to throw heavier forces into Spain and try to secure on that peninsula a Fascist triumph which the stout...
...NEVILLE BOSSES THE CABINET: MINISTERS MUST REPORT DAILY" headlined the Referee, with considerable truth, as certain statesmen in Whitehall admitted off the record to friends this week. "Mr. Neville Chamberlain," continued the Referee, "is running the Cabinet as though it were a board meeting with himself as Managing Director of Britain Ltd. And the Cabinet members don't like...
...Neville has a tremendous programme of armament to get through- and his role of managing director is well in the Chamberlain tradition. Neville's family were among Birmingham's biggest industrialists. And Neville himself was for years a business man before he became a politician...
...Treasury, Neville Chamberlain is still Chancellor of the Exchequer, though nominally Sir John Simon holds...
...Similarly, Mr. Eden continues at the Foreign Office chiefly because Conservative Party electioneers think the British public still believe he is the shining Galahad of the League of Nations-although on the quiet at Geneva Mr. Eden has become a chronic misser of tricks for the League. Realistic Neville Chamberlain, his friends intimated this week, is bossing Eden & Simon hardest only because they need the most bossing, is giving plenty of scope to his more active and realistic Cabinet colleagues, such as Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of Health Sir Kingsley Wood...