Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Italy with that flaming sword, the League of Nations. Having won the election Mr. Baldwin, who had created for "Tony" Eden the hitherto unheard of office of "Minister for League of Nations Affairs," sat back contentedly to let Ethiopia and Italy be dealt with in practical fashion by Sir Samuel Hoare, then Foreign Secretary, and by the bril liant professionals of the Foreign Office whose permanent head is Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart. In a few short weeks, by cooperating closely with the then French Premier, thick-lipped and unprepossessing Pierre Laval, they had produced "The Deal" (TIME...
...signed by Sir Samuel Hoare and M. Pierre Laval, with every prospect that it would be accepted by Benito Mussolini and adorned with the signature of Haile Selassie after a little suasion, "The Deal" provided in essence that II Duce should content himself with roughly half of Ethiopia and agree to the continued rule of its Emperor over the rest. Had "The Deal" gone through, Ethiopians would have been spared the horrors of wide spread poison gas warfare; Haile Selassie would have been reigning in Addis Ababa last week instead of being snubbed in London (see p. 20) ; and Britain...
Complicating the situation was Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's ambition to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister. Chances for this would be bettered if Sir Samuel Hoare came a cropper, for he was then Mr. Chamberlain's chief rival to be future occupant of No. 10 Downing St. Something had to be decided quickly and Chancellor Chamberlain's respected halfbrother, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter and Nobel Peace Prizeman, was zealous in telling the befuddled Stanley Baldwin what a dirty, dirty deal the whole thing really was. In an amazing House of Commons...
...Sir Samuel has the string of friendships in potent "Naval families" necessary to a First Lord, and having once been Secretary of State for Air he can be trusted to put the Admiralty's planes on a par with the world's best. This week No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale partly because Sir Samuel has been intending to build a house better suited to display his treasures, but chiefly because as First Lord he will reside with Lady Maud at Admiralty House, Whitehall in the sumptuous residence which the aristocratic British Navy provides for its chief...
...dispatches last week Sir Samuel's return to the National Government figured as of major import, most correspondents feeling that indirectly it sounded the knell of League Sanctions, some indulging in flat prophesy that, within some such period as two years, "Flying Sam" will have become successively first Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Prime Minister...