Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...angriest, most random debate of the year upon great issues. Pacifist George Lansbury, who recently talked with Adolf Hitler, seemed to fear the British lion was about to spring upon the German lamb. He wailed: "How many times will you crush the German people?" The Leipzig incident fired belligerent Sir Archibald Sinclair, M. P., to make a fiery speech, at the climax of which he cried: "Remember the Maine...
With such poor debating competition as this, oldster Lloyd George came off with the day's forensic honors, taunting the Prime Minister with the memory of his late, great halfbrother, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G. "Many times the late Austen Chamberlain in this House," cried Mr. Lloyd George, "said: 'What is the good of making any pact with Germany? She will only keep it as long as it suits her, and the moment she has a good excuse for breaking it, and it suits her, she will break it?' I am sorry to say that...
...Treasury, Neville Chamberlain is still Chancellor of the Exchequer, though nominally Sir John Simon holds...
...Sir John Simon's job has been to stall off deputations that have been to the Treasury with proposals about...
...everyone in Whitehall knows, Sir John owes his presence in the Government not to any general feeling that he would be a good Chancellor of the Exchequer but to the fact that he heads a minute political party, the "Simonite Liberals," whose support the Prime Minister needs in order to maintain the "National" (i.e., coalition) character of his Cabinet. Similarly, Mr. Eden continues at the Foreign Office chiefly because Conservative Party electioneers think the British public still believe he is the shining Galahad of the League of Nations-although on the quiet at Geneva Mr. Eden has become a chronic...