The Washington times., 1938-07-28
COp-in-the-W Window
Chamberlain

ID RACING ourselves to receive brickbats and squawks
- from the Right and from the Left register as
loud cheer for Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain of Great Britain.
The cheer occasioned by Chamberlan speech to the
House of Commons day before yesterdays. This speech
was account of Chamberlans stewardship since he
gave Anthony Eden the gate foreign secretary and
put in Lord Halifax sort of Charlie Mccarthy for
Chamberlains personal foreign policy.
The speech ended on note of carefully qualified
optimism. Chamberlain said he could promise nothing
about continued peace in Europe Excluding Span) but
that he was hoping for the BEST and that least the
tension is less than it was six months ago.
1t was the keynote of the speech that seemed so inter-
estng and significant to this writer
That keynote compromise-compromse between
Great Britain and nations threatening Brains safety
compromises engineered by Britain between nations pant
~, ing to be at each others
Not Dead Hero throat,
Lire T0,nnroynieor The speech contained no
heroic accounts of battles
and foes ground under heel of dicators told fear
lessy where they could get off-as Eden was telling
them every other day or so while he managing
British policy, thus inching England toward war;
Chamberlain told how he has made dickers and deals
all the map of Europe often sacrificing Englands
and his dignity to do So
Chamberlain's "non-ntervention" policy toward the
Spanish civil long since took off into the stratosphere
of the higher hypocrisy, enraging both extreme Right
and extreme Left. But England has not been drawn
into that war.
Chamberlain has been smoothing Hitlers feathers
the Czechosovak question: at the same time warm
ing up to France. This has led Czechs, Germans and
French alike to suspect that England trying to sell
them all down the river. But at the time we went to
press, Europe had not gone to war; Czechosovaa
or anything else. The Czech government indeed has
just proposed settlement of it's Sudeten German
minority's chief grievances This may only postpone
Hitlers Czechoslovak grab foreshadowed in "Mein
Kampf; but at any rate the boys weren't going out
to battle at press time
Chamberlain further has flattered and cajoled Mus
soni so successfully that Muss hasn't stuck out that
chin of his at England or France in month
Chamberlain hasn't been able to stop the Chinese
Japanese the in Spain; but at least those
still localized. They have not exploded into
a world conflagration
In short, Chamberlans policy reminds us of the John
Warde leap from the seventeenth floor Gotham Hotel
ledge day before yesterday, with Chamberlain playing
.,. the role of cops who kidded
hL00ng Europe Warde for hours out of taking
Ont Of Suicide off,
The cops finally lost the ar
gument Chamberlain may finally lose his truun-
petess paradeess, shotess battle of compromise and
dicker wait-a-minue, put off, postpone. Europe is so
crazed with hates and Embellishments that another
general European seems inevitable, sooner or later
But Chamberlain up to now has kidded Europe out of
diving into which may easily prove to be the sui
eide of European civilization That all to the good
the New York.