Word: chamberlaine
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...Received from terse Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain the bad news that Britain's current "phenomenal rates of expenditure" for armaments "have made practically certain that there will be a deficit in the Budget...
...only question is what size that deficit will be." Earlier in the week rumors that British civil servants were planning to go on a stayin strike for more pay similar to those in France caused Chancellor Chamberlain to tell the House: "Civil servants who seek to indulge in such strike tactics render themselves liable to instant dismissal...
Scathing oratory seethed in the House of Commons last week as His Majesty's Government were fiercely attacked on their proposal to lift Sanctions by His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, frosty Mr. Neville Chamberlain, was hammered to the roots of his personal moral fibre by Opposition Leader Clement Attlee with savage, terrier-like insistence. After first saying that Benito Mussolini reminded him of "Scarface" Al Capone, Major Attlee shouted at the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "If Neville Chamberlain, instead of being mayor of Birmingham, had been mayor of Chicago, he would have altered...
...more familiar sight than the large red beard of the amiable British Bohemian, George Slocombe. Twice, he claims in The Tumult & the Shouting, he personally contrived to bring about historic meetings between hostile statesmen: 1) at Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France's present Socialist Premier Leon Blum, he was still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust...
...Chamberlain then crushingly referred to efforts by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, president of the British League of Nations Union, to rally British public opinion in support of Sanctions and against Italy. Lord Cecil had just issued "the most serious, most urgent communication" he had ever made to the British public, declaring: "Since our honor and the future of our civilization are involved, we have the right to demand that our Gov ernment should openly declare its conviction that the Covenant of the League of Nations must be carried out. . . . Sanctions should be maintained and if necessary increased...