Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirited attack on Sir Thomas, rapier-tongued Winston Churchill made the most of an admission that the Cabinet is keeping "fluid" its Rearmament plans. "The Government cannot make up their minds," snorted Mr. Churchill, "and so they decide only to be undecided, resolve only to be irresolute, are adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful but impotent...
...Baldwin seemed to think that by this statement he had assuaged the fears of the House, and Sir Thomas Inskip confided that the Best Brains plan to defend London from air attack partly by means of a "balloon barrage"; hundreds of balloons floating high above the capital secured by steel cables which, it is hoped, will entangle the wings of enemy bombing planes...
...First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, revealed that while Britain is bound by treaty to aid Belgium or France if these are attacked by Germany, in the minds of members of the British Cabinet "the situation differs materially from the situation in 1914. In 1914 there were in existence definite commitments. There was an actual and agreed plan between the French, and British general staffs. In the present case there are no such commitments. We shall have to judge the situation when it arises...
These words could be read as meaning that the Cabinet are in a mood to shrug off some of Britain's most solemn treaty obligations. Before Europe could be shocked, however, Sir Samuel's entourage explained that the First Lord's words were an expression of the fact that Britain is not bound to send any particular kind of aid although she is bound to send aid and is true to this obligation...
...Home Office informed the House that gas masks at the rate of 2,000,000 per month will soon be available for distribution free to the 45,000,000 subjects of King Edward in the United Kingdom "in the event of an emergency." The Home Secretary Sir John Simon, speaking in behalf of his bill to ban the wearing of "political uniforms" (TIME, Nov. 16), told the House with an owlish air of knowing more than he could reveal: "Information has reached me which goes to show that both in the case of Fascist and Communist organizations, their funds have...