Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Bureaucracy Gone Mad?" During World War I there were five secret sessions of the House of Commons, and years afterward it leaked out that at the first of these Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith was heckled to the verge of resigning, until he promised there would be no conscription of...
There were no leaks last week, but before the secret session began Laborites and Liberals said freely that they were going to raise the major issue of whether the Ministry of Supply under Leslie Burgin is a "bureaucracy gone mad," as charged by Socialist Arthur Greenwood, Deputy Leader of the...
"Rules the Waves." Day after the secret session, the House of Commons again did business in public, and good luck sent Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the British Navy's triumph over the Admiral Graf Spee (see p. 20) to divert public interest from any Government shortcomings in the conduct...
Matter of Taste. The spry old Prime Minister began his own holiday by flying to inspect British troops in France, retorted to reporters who complained that the war is proving boresome: "It is a matter of taste. Personally, I would prefer to be bored rather than bombed."
Fit to burst with pride at the latest achievement of laborious German scholarship, secretaries of the Berlin Foreign Office last week called in correspondents of all nations to inspect a 100,000-word White Book titled Documentary pre-History of War. Published simultaneously in twelve languages, Foreign Minister Joachim von...