Word: scapegoat
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...held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that he, as the engineer of the Tory political machine, could suffer a backfire of moral indignation from its stout innards. Not being his own Foreign Secretary, Mr. Baldwin could and did make a scapegoat of Sir Samuel Hoare. After that he stated the future Ethiopian policy of His Majesty's Government in terms so ambiguous that even this week new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had not yet made them clear. In effect Squire Baldwin announced. "We stand where we stand...
Premier Laval, being his own Foreign Minister, could not make himself his own scapegoat. He is the engineer of no political steam roller but an Independent. During 1935 the French Chamber, in which there is no solid majority, has been on the point of overthrowing him for one reason or another nearly every week, not because he is unpopular but in the ordinary workings of French politics in which Premier after Premier is ground exceedingly small. Last week there were beyond question in the Chamber more than enough Leaguo-philes, Devaluationists, Socialists, Communists and people-who-simply-do-not- like...
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...
When the moral stench against them grew insupportable. His Majesty's Government accepted the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare last week, although he had done nothing except on their prior instructions and with their subsequent approval. In sheltering themselves by means of a scapegoat were His Majesty's Government cowards...
Hero Hoare. The vote was not to come until midnight and it was then midafternoon. Sharp at 3:40 p.m. Scapegoat Sir Samuel Hoare appeared. If treachery and cowardice had been shown, he was at least the No. 2 Traitor and the No. 2 Coward. What is known as British fair play won him upon his entry a veritable tumult of cheers from all parts of the House of Commons. His chief accuser, Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of official rectitude and a torch of moral indignation against The Deal, had been saving a place...