Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must deplore the recent attitude of the German press, which in one case has not scrupled to pour its vituperation against our most respected statesman, himself only recently Prime Minister of this country, and in few cases has shown much desire to understand our point of view...
Nazi journalists behaved like badly spoiled, ill-tempered and sulky brats last week at London and Brussels. At London, they boycotted Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech. At Lima, five German correspondents stalked out of a committee session in a huff when Dantes Bellegarde, Haitian delegate, declared that the Americas could not "possibly have anything in common with a nation that had reverted to customs of the Middle Ages...
Fortnight ago the Berlin Nazi-controlled newsorgan Lokalanzeiger called former British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, now Lord Baldwin, a "guttersnipe." Nazis were vexed because Lord Baldwin, in appealing for contributions to a help-the-refugees fund, had condemned Germany's persecutions of Jews...
Many other British statesmen have been called just as bad or worse in the German press (notably Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Alfred Duff Cooper), but last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lord Baldwin's successor, decided to defend his old Cabinet colleague. Invited to deliver the main speech at the 50th anniversary dinner of London's Foreign Press Association, which includes in its membership German as well as U. S., French, Italian, Polish, Latin American correspondents, Mr. Chamberlain, in preparing his speech, inserted amidst paragraphs of amiable generalities one moderate sentence of criticism...
...port of Memel, with 38.545 inhabitants, contains iron foundries, ship-building yards, breweries, chemical plants. Because it is the country's only developed outlet to the sea, its formal appropriation by Germany would be almost irreparable to Lithuania. But Lithuania had some friends left, however ineffective. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that the French and British Embassies in Berlin had been instructed to express the official hope that the German Government "will use its influence to insure respect" for the 1924 Memel Statute finally giving the district to Lithuania...