Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messrs. Wilson and Phillips proceeded to teach the teacher. Both were alarmed at the sharpness with which Franklin Roosevelt-and U. S. public opinion-has slapped at Dictators Hitler and Mussolini, and by implication has frowned upon Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of "appeasing" Fascism. Instead of being told that they should revamp their views to fit Washington's, they persuaded the President to leave foreign policy out of his Chapel Hill speech (TIME, Dec. 12), and further to soften his democratic dander last week...
...House of Commons Prime Minister Chamberlain denied that his subordinate's speech represented official policy, admitted, however, that it expressed widespread disappointment at the "response the Government's policy of international appeasement had evoked in Germany." Mr. Chamberlain added that he saw no inconsistency in trying to be friends and arming to the teeth at the same time...
...dinner last week at 69 Eaton Square, London, the home of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, now Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, went His Majesty King George VI. Tory that he is, Earl Baldwin invited to eat, drink and smoke informally with His Majesty eight Laborite and Liberal leaders who had never before met the King. Some thought that Earl Baldwin, privately vehemently critical of the Chamberlain Government, was hatching a palace plot against the Prime Minister. Better explanation: the King, symbol of the nation, was simply making friends with men who might be needed in a crisis. This could...
...soon be blazing. Despite the fact that snow blankets many sectors of the front and that many of his troops are war-weary after eight counteroffensives to retake the Ebro River salient. Generalissimo Franco is determined to throw everything he has into one Big Push before Britain's Prime Minister meets Premier Mussolini at Rome early in January. A Franco success, such as his smash-through to the Mediterranean last April, would give II Duce a good talking point on which to demand belligerent rights for the Insurgents from Mr. Chamberlain...
...France, since Munich, wits have referred to Britain's Prime Minister as "J'aime Berlin." In Belgium, having seen that there was one article of worldly goods which Mr. Chamberlain never was without, not only wits but solid citizens began strolling into umbrella stores and asking for "um chamberlain...