Word: palmerstonian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jail Diplomacy." In London the Rothermere (yellow Conservative) press screeched that "Lord Irwin's jail diplomacy has failed!" and decorous Conservative papers said the same thing less neatly. The Laborite Daily Herald, worried, took refuge in a Palmerstonian phrase, observed that the Viceroy "reluctantly but perforce will now be unable to contract the latitudes of executive discretion"-i. e., "jail diplomacy" is to continue...
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