MR CHAMBERLAIN’S ASCENT
A DEFINITE LIMIT SET. At the beginning of his Premiership Mr Chamberlain seemed to put a definite limit on the heights which he would attempt (notes “Atticus,” writing in the “Sunday Times.”) Within those limits he was lucid, logical, and effective. But eloquence, like all great arts, must have emotion, and it was in his resentment of recent charges against him that Mr Chamberlain broke away from the shackles of his own imposing. Now he sways the House of Commons where once he persuaded it. There was a dramatic moment in the House recently when he was being derided for having abandoned the League. Turning abruptly toward the Opposition, Mr Chamberlain said: “The League today is mutilated; it is maimed; and those who, like me, do their best to build it up afresh to be a real world League which could protect the weak and limit the powers of the strong, serve it better than those who would attempt to put on it, in its present state, tasks which are manifestly beyond its strength.” There is the Lincoln touch in that. The words not only have clarity, but are obviously sincere. Mr Chamberlain has become the stylist of the Front Bench.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 8
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204MR CHAMBERLAIN’S ASCENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 8
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