Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot...
...Prime Minister: Neville Chamberlain...
...Ether. Besides bombing Berlin with pamphlets, Britain's broadcasting stations bombarded Germany with phonograph transcriptions of Prime Minister Chamberlain's voice. Excerpts...
...confidence he has scarcely expressed so firmly since the Boer War. Gone in an instant were the generous ideals and humane motives that Communism professed to accept, vindicated in the same instant were: 1) his distrust of Russia, 2) his fear of Germany, 3) his criticisms of the Prime Minister's delay, 4) his attacks on Munich as paving the way for a new crisis. Vindicated above all was his vision of the ideal British Empire as a force for social progress, an ideal undermined by 20 years of jeers from the Left, indifference from the Right...
Whether his spirit would put Winston Churchill in the Cabinet was dwarfed by bigger questions last week: certainly Britain's ruling class still considers him brilliant, erratic, unsafe; certainly Prime Minister Chamberlain would regard his entry as a major calamity. But in or out, Cabinet Minister or M. P. for Epping, Winston Churchill served last week as a symbol of British democracy, as an oppositionist of the kind that totalitarian governments cannot endure...