Word: chamberlaine
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...First Lord of the Admiralty and Lady Monsell forgot happily all about the London Naval Conference which is doubly deadlocked (TIME, Dec. 30). Monsell's second daughter is learning Tibetan and had many interesting things to tell. The hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Chamberlain did not go home to gloomy Birmingham, but holidayed in Dorking with a large and merry party. Up in Scotland the superstition that one's New Year will be unlucky unless the first person across one's doorstep is a dark-haired man. kept dark-haired Dominions...
...birdshot into students screeching "Down with England!" At the close of his holiday, Mr. Eden set about officially "becoming acquainted'' with the personnel of the British Foreign Office in which he has labored since 1926, when he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. All its civil servants who were of sufficient rank to be presented he greeted affably. These were moments to be savored, treasured. Thirty years hence volumes of memoirs will be adorned with versions of what "Tony" said last week if he proves to be a great British Foreign Secretary. What...
...cowardice had been shown, he was at least the No. 2 Traitor and the No. 2 Coward. What is known as British fair play won him upon his entry a veritable tumult of cheers from all parts of the House of Commons. His chief accuser, Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of official rectitude and a torch of moral indignation against The Deal, had been saving a place for Sam on the overcrowded third bench and as he squeezed into it. the pair cordially shook hands...
...defend himself was hard-hitting, fact-marshaling and perhaps gave the lead to the future Ethiopian policy of Britain (see p. 10). Its climax came in a passage which caused Orator Hoare to brush the tears from his eyes while additional tears welled in the eyes of Peaceman Chamberlain and many another M. P. The passage: "I ask myself, looking back, whether I have a guilty conscience or whether my conscience is clear. I say with all humility to the House that my conscience is clear...
Britannia: "Help!" In the weary hours of debate preceding midnight teary Sir Austen's tearless half-brother Neville Chamberlain, the hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer, went a long way toward announcing what policy in the Ethiopian crisis is now to be followed by Britain. "If the League of Nations should decide that oil sanctions should be applied." said Mr. Chamberlain, "and that they can be effective-and should we be satisfied that all members of the League are not only ready to give us assurances but are also prepared to take their part in meeting...