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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politically for more than 60 years. Each of three outstanding Chamberlain Statesmen has been not the first aristocrat, not the first proletarian, but perhaps the first progressive Middle-Class leader of his time. Father Joseph ("Old Joe") Chamberlain who died of a stroke at 77 in 1914; Elder Son Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., who died of a stroke at 73 last year; and Half-Brother Neville Chamberlain, who is 69-each of these three, after years of experience in civic, national and finally international affairs, reached the conclusion that firm peace between Britain and Germany is a cornerstone without...
...Sir Wilmott Lewis, Washington correspondent for the London Times, addressing the Bond Club of New York, declared: "It was very much like the old story of the four men who were endeavoring to lift a grand piano into a truck and were unable to do it. When the fifth man came along, the fifth man did what the four could...
Every Norwegian recalled that the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize went to half-brother Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles G. Dawes for their part in paving the way for the Pact of Locarno. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, as he then was, received from King George V a much rarer honor than elevation to the peerage, knighthood in the Order of the Garter, and in British circles this week Mr. Neville Chamberlain was slated to receive equal honors at the hands of King George VI. Birmingham University was at once presented last week with a $50.000 scholarship fund, donated by Midland Publisher Sir...
Precisely at this moment, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon handed the Prime Minister a message just received from the Führer, and Neville Chamberlain, after reading it, went on with emotion in his voice...
...Said Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of the Liberal Opposition: "We have not only given the Sudetenland to the Reich! We have restored Germany to Hitler and Italy to Mussolini...