Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only did the Prime Minister show himself a great Minister of the Crown, but the whole British people displayed a moral force," said Le Temps of Paris last week. "This test, which was very perilous, has magnificently confirmed the value of British institutions...
...House of Commons a single member who did not know that this opening was a bland reversal of the facts-yet so bold and sweeping that it rose not to the crescendo of a lie but to that of the most convincing and comfortable assurance which a Prime Minister could feel it his awful duty to make. Mr. Baldwin went on to tell how these two perfect friends had confided to each other that the one wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson and the other, while not venturing to advise, still less to blame, had expressed the opinion that the Home...
Even Stanley Baldwin's warmest enemy, sanctions-badgered Benito Mussolini, was enough of a Great Editor last week to agree that the Prime Minister had been great in handling the Empire crisis of Edward VIII. Il Duce dictates daily the tone of Italy's press and the following handsome admission in Giornale d'ltalia might have been tagged To Stanley from Benito: "Prime Minister Baldwin has served the interests of his country worthily by facing the painful but necessary battle to separate, even up to extreme consequences, Edward's private life from the duties that...
...Baldwin says she "knows that the inscrutable hand of Providence guides" her husband, and Mr. Baldwin is not alone in thinking she is right. He was last week the absolutely ideal Prime Minister to weather an English crisis by applying precisely those qualities of bulldog smugness which have strewn his career in foreign affairs with disaster after disaster and are today threatening to gum the works of British Rearmament and imperil the Empire (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante). Again & again Mr. Baldwin has told the House of Commons that "my lips are sealed" until this has become a 1936 British...
...convinced that where I failed no one could have succeeded," concluded the Prime Minister. "Let no word be spoken that causes pain to any soul and let us not forget today the revered, beloved figure of Queen Mary." The speech also contained that little throb of penitence which has for years been the trademark of every "crisis speech" by Stanley Baldwin. A democratic Prime Minister must undertake no great matter without informing at least three or four principal members of the British Cabinet. Of his approach to Edward VIII on this gravest issue, the Prime Minister told the House...