TRIBUTES TO MR CHAMBERLAIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 11

TRIBUTES TO MR CHAMBERLAIN

POPULARITY IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES I.By Air Mail-Own Correspondent! LONDON, 3rd November. It is astonishing from how many dfiferent European countries come reports of Mr Neville Chamberlain’s intense popularity. Whatever may have been the feelings of the statesmen and soldiers in high places, undoubtedly the man in the street regarded the British Prime Minister’s action with grateful admiration. They believe that, by his devoted efforts to reopen negotiations when the fateful dice seemed to have been cast, Mr Chamberlain averted from Europe another hideous and ruinous war. It is rather a weird fact that, while the Premier's critics in London are taunting him with a maliciously clever parody— ‘lf at first you don’t concede, fly, fly, fly again”—on the Continent people are calling their umbrellas ‘■Chamberlains.” This is happening both in Belgium and Holland, and it indicates how in those two countries, as well as in Fiance, a large moiety of the anxious population believe the British Premier sheltered Europe from a terrible storm. Earl Baldwin never established himself across the Channel as the personality Mr Cham-