Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precisely at this moment, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon handed the Prime Minister a message just received from the Führer, and Neville Chamberlain, after reading it, went on with emotion in his voice...
Munich crowds, which had cheered Mussolini and then Daladier to the echo as they departed, went wild with shrieks, roars and tears of joy as Neville Chamberlain finally returned to his hotel and gave-what correspondents termed almost unprecedented for a British Prime Minister-an informal interview. Incredulous at this break, newshawks found Neville Chamberlain seated at a desk, sipping a cup of coffee and rolling a cigar between his lips with evident satisfaction. He shoved across the desk a copy of a communiqué to be issued in the names of himself and Adolf Hitler: "We regard the agreement...
...greatest ovation in modern French history on his return from Munich, he was severely criticized the morning afterward for not having obtained from Adolf Hitler some such two-man peace pledge as Mr. Chamberlain got. It was this document, not the four-power pact dismembering Czechoslovakia, which the British Prime Minister proudly waved when he landed at Heston Airport, and at which monster British crowds went berserk with relief...
...Dear Reichskanzler . . ." began the Prime Minister. "The difficulty I see about the proposal you put to me yesterday afternoon arises from the suggestion that the areas should in the immediate future be occupied by German troops. ... I do not think you have realized the impossibility of my agreeing to put forward any plan unless I have reason to suppose it will be considered by public opinion in my country, in France, and indeed in the world generally, as carrying out the principles already agreed upon in an orderly fashion and free from the threat of force. . . . There must surely...
...alliance or break one off. Turkey recently considered herself lucky to get a loan of $30,000,000-her price for switching from the German to the British side. In the House of Commons this week, the Opposition, which had been crying "Shame!" at the Prime Minister and stressing "friendship" for Czechoslovakia without proposing measures of succor, was politically thunderstruck. It was obvious that the Czechs & Slovaks may find it good business to get rid of 3,250,000 Sudeten Germans in exchange for a loan of $150,000,000−or about $46 per blond Sudeten squarehead. The startled...