Word: chatfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsreel Note. Out of the Cabinet altogether went Lord Chatfield, Minister for Coordination of Defense, thereby reducing the inner War Cabinet from nine men to eight. Instead of giving First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill this chair to put his feet on, parsimonious Neville Chamberlain scrapped the Ministry and named kewpish Mr. Churchill Chairman of the Committee of Service Ministers (Air Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, War Secretary Oliver Stanley, Winston himself). Since the committee can only make recommendations to the Cabinet, the Prime Minister had made Mr. Churchill look more powerful to the public without giving him more power...
France's Premier Daladier, who hobbled in on canes* to apologize for having to shift this meeting from England (the last was in France, at Amiens), later described the gathering as "formidable" ("tremendous"). Originally the Council consisted of four men: Britain's Prime Minister Chamberlain and Lord Chatfield, France's Daladier and Generalissimo Gamelin. This time Mr. Chamberlain took with him four members of his Cabinet-Lord Halifax (Foreign Affairs), Winston Churchill (Admiralty), Oliver Stanley (War), Sir Kingsley Wood (Air)-plus a number of underling specialists and General Sir Edmund Ironside, chief of the British Imperial General...