Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, after making Sir Samuel Hoare a political scapegoat in the House of Commons and generally making an exhibition of himself (see p. 12), was summoned to Buckingham Palace. That he and other members of the Cabinet were rebuked in the strongest terms by the King for having made a dangerous mess was an impression publicly strengthened when Squire Baldwin emerged with black and discouraged looks. He was later observed to behave snappishly to his devoted wife Lucy, famed for her pious confidence that whatever Stanley does is but the indirect working of Divine Providence...
...King, being to all appearances convinced that Italo-Ethiopian peace must be made by negotiation and not by surrender if another World War is to be avoided, made himself clear to the Nation this week by according Sir Samuel Hoare an hour's private audience. Such a British honor would have been unthinkable if the King had been shocked or morally revolted as Leagophiles were by "The Deal'' of Hoare & Laval...
...terms as morally odious and commence bargaining Italy down. In Italian eyes this week, war with England became increasingly probable as Benito Mussolini suddenly appeared tired, grave and grim in contrast to his high spirits and buoyant good humor up to the very hour last week before Sir Samuel Hoare resigned. In Italian opinion the last and most outrageous straw was the appointment this week of "Tony" Eden as British Foreign Secretary (see below...
This exposition was made by Sir Samuel Hoare, 55, the day after his resignation as British Foreign Secretary and three days before he was succeeded by Mr. Anthony Eden, 38, the youngest British Foreign Secretary since Earl Granville in 1851. Its continuing vital importance was well indicated by New-York Timesman Charles A. Selden who cabled from London thus: "Anybody who went to the Commons expecting to hear reproaches and recriminations between Sir Samuel Hoare on the one hand and Mr. Baldwin and other members of the Cabinet on the other was disappointed. There was not a trace of bitterness...
Useless Sympathy, With such views current in the House of Commons, the future course of His Majesty's Government regarding Ethiopia seemed certain to take its bearings from basic factors which have not changed in the slightest because of the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare. These factors he ably set forth...