The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-11

Continued from Page One) dent of the Council on October 3.
 Attempted Bombing
 It was announced cnly last Sat urday that with in, the past two week. Nag bombs h. q fallen with Il the grounds of the Sixteenth Century house of Hampshire where Chamberlain lay gravely ill. One 5omb dropped cnlJ 40 yards away from the Hcus9 King Geo-ge and Queen Elizabeth recently visited Chamberlain there
 Was steel Magaste
 Neville Chamberlain. the seccnd uccees.ve British steel magrats to ceoupy the post Of Prime Minister and the third Of his immediate family to play a leading rcle in contemporary British history. was a hard headed busiress man who was nearly 50 years old before he became a national figure
 Despite this, and despite toe the cvershadCwing brilliance Of hiS fla her, Joseph Chamberlain, and h's 'lalf-brcther. Sir J. Austen Cham oerlain, he went higher than either f them. It fell tc his let in fact, tc carry through the project that vas dearest tc the heart of his fla her when, in 1932. as Chancellor 0f the EXchequer, he intedueed an empire-preferencc tariff schedule in lis budget, This rcversed the cen tuIy-cld British policy of free i'm ports, a project for which his fa- her had fought vainly from 1863 until his death in 1)i4 With Aus een Chamberlain among his Par 'iamentary auditors, the sen said:
 Dying Consolation
 T believe he would have found ccnsclaticn for the bitterness of his ii-&ppc ntment if ha could have scresesn that these proposals. which Ire the direct and legitimate des- cendants of his own conception, would be laid befcre the House Of Tcnmcns by thc lips of cne and ip he presence cf the other of the two immediate successc.s of his name md blood"
 Clipped Foreign Affairs
 cpnaking sn July 8. 1886. the cen
 nary Of his fathers birth. Nevillc aid tariffs had brought prosperity T the c0untry ard that Joseph 7hamberlainc prophecies had hecn fulfilled.
 Chamberlain. as Prime Minlster FPS ncted foc his sound grip on fc~
 pn affairs. studied largely whi-e ae was Chanoeilor of the Excheausr 'nder his Predeceessy, Stanley BalI v'n. Early in his tenure he Virtu- ,liy tQck eyer the direction CT tho 7creign Officc, gave his young Fer ign Secre 7.y. Anthony Eden a va 72ticn and tightensd up the strings af British pol.ey
 argue With Dicfa'crs
 Chamberlain worked tc smooth ont difficulties With dictator countries. \ rerecaal ncte to Premier Becito Mussoini of Italy in August, 1937, n Italo-BritiSf friendship pore good fruit. But in February, l932. when Chamberlain pursued his pcl- icy despite q German Nazi rap- prcachment in Austria. Eden re- signed Tc a tumultuaus House of Commons, Chamberlain shouted he had to seek understandings with Rome ard Berlin tc avoid war and he denounced as sham the League of Nations idea of opposing aggres- sicn with fierce.
 Chamberlain was born March Is. 1869. second son of Joseph Cham berlain. He was christered Arthur Neville but early dropped the first name. His oducation was gained al Rugby and at MaSca College. Bir- mingham
 hllCl d ItM gttiiS III lilN 0ttyiist-- D of manufacturirg screws and othor steel produats in Birmingham, he went tc the West Indies in 1890 where his father had purchased a sisal plantation. Seven years Of hard work there brought no material re- ward, fer the venture proved fail- ure. costing the elder Chamberlain S25C COG.
 Back in England Neville Cham berlain interested himself i'll tlle affairs of his native city and in 1915 became Lord Mayor Of Birmingham, an cffice which his father had he'd 40 years before He entered national politics in 1918 when he was elected Member of Parliament fer the Lady wood division of Birmingham.
 Many Cabinet Pests
 He was Postmaster General in 1922. Paymaster General 1923. Chan cellor of the Exchcauer 1923-2a Min ter of Health l924-29, and Chancellor of the Exchequer again 193l-3'i.
 He became Prime Minister May 28, 1937, when Stanley Baldwin re- tired after engineering the abdica- tion of Edward VIII and the cor- onation of George VI.