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	Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British Prime Minister of the 20th century, largely because of his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the abandonment of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich in 1938.
		Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen Chamberlain.
		Chamberlain and Baldwin had a strong political partnership throughout their fourteen years at the height of politics together, but Chamberlain was frustrated by Baldwin's sense of detachment and disinterest in the detail of policy, while Baldwin found Chamberlain's low opinion of the Labour Party disappointing.
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	Joseph Chamberlain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chamberlain was enthusiastic about the requirement for the provision of free, secular, compulsory education, stating that 'it is as much the duty of the State to see that the children are educated as to see that they are fed.' He also pointed to the success owed by the United States and Prussia to public education.
		Chamberlain's scope for manoeuvre was restricted between 1880 and 1883 by the Cabinet’s occupancy with difficulties concerning Ireland, Transvaal and Egypt.
		Chamberlain was eager to use this as a starting point for the reordering of Britain's trade, and he was encouraged by a report submitted in June by the President of the Board of Trade, Gerald Balfour, the Prime Minister's younger brother, which suggested that reciprocal agreements with the colonies might be beneficial.
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	Joseph Chamberlain
		Joseph Chamberlain (July 8, 1836-July 2, 1914), a British industrialist, reformer, and statesman, was a key cabinet minister in Liberal and Conservative governments.
		Chamberlain refused to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
		Joseph Chamberlain was a magisterial and dominating figure in his sons' lives, and the Unitarian attitudes of the Chamberlain and Harben families greatly influenced their thinking and action.
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	Joseph Chamberlain (July 8, 1836 - July 3, 1914) was a British politician. In his early years he was a Liberal and a ...
		Joseph Chamberlain (July 8, 1836 - July 3, 1914) was a British politician.
		Joseph Chamberlain was born in London to a successful shoemaker.
		He was elected as one of the city's MPs in 1876, and swiftly rose through the parliamentary ranks, becoming President of the Board of Trade in the government of William Ewart Gladstone in 1880.
	www.birminghamuk.com /wikipedia/Joseph_Chamberlain.htm (879 words)

	Chamberlain, Joseph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Entering Parliament as a Liberal in 1876, Chamberlain advocated radical social reform and served under William Gladstone as president of the Board of Trade (1880–85).
		Chamberlain became leader of the Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons in 1891, and in 1895 he joined the Conservative government as colonial secretary.
		Chamberlain’s belief in the need for closer imperial union led him to espouse the cause of imperial preference in tariffs.
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	Joseph Chamberlain
		Joseph Chamberlain, the son of a shopkeeper, was born in London 1836.
		Chamberlain was extremely popular in Birmingham, and was elected unopposed in a parliamentary election held in 1876.
		Chamberlain soon made his mark in the House of Commons and after the 1880 General Election, William Gladstone appointed Chamberlain as President of the Board of Trade.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRchamberlainJ.htm (641 words)

	Chamberlain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		oseph Chamberlain was born in 1836 in London.
		This new party was backed by the Liberal Unionists, "which Chamberlain was a part of." This new group controlled the British politics for some years.
		Chamberlain then was paralyzed by a stroke in 1906 after his last political victory.
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		The younger son of Joseph Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Chamberlain was born in Birmingham, England, on March 18, 1869.
		Chamberlain was by temperament a businessman and a civil servant before he was a politician; although he did much to extend welfare services between the wars, his contribution was that of rationalization and was not based on a desire to change quickly and radically the existing qualities of social life.
		Chamberlain's willingness to negotiate with Hitler was thus more than a result of a sense of military weakness and a refusal to regard the German minority in Czechoslovakia as worth fighting over--although these considerations were present.
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	Neville Chamberlain
		the son of Joseph Chamberlain, and the brother of Austin Chamberlain, was born in 1869.
		Chamberlain believed that Germany had been badly treated by the Allies after it was defeated in the First World War.
		Halifax and Chamberlain are doubtless very great men, who dwarf their colleagues; they are the greatest Englishmen alive, certainly; but aside from them we have a mediocre crew; I fear that England is on the decline, and that we shall dwindle for a generation or so.
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	More about the Chamberlains: Joseph, Austen & Neville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Joseph Chamberlain was born in London in 1836.
		Joseph Chamberlain died in 1914, still MP for the town he had come to love every bit as much as it loved him.
		Chamberlain returned to government in 1924 as Foreign Secretary, in which role he negotiated the Locarno Pact of 1925 with Germany, France, Italy and Belgium, for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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	JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN - LoveToKnow Article on JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Young Chamberlain was educated at Canonbury from 1845 to 1850, and at University College school, London, from 1850 to 1852.
		Nettlefold and Chamberlain employed new methods of attracting customers, and judiciously amalgamated rival firms with their own so as to reduce competition, with the result that in 1874, after twenty-two years of commercial life, Mr Chamberlain was able to retire with an ample fortune.
		But the great work carried through by Mr Chamberlain for Birmingham was the municipalization of the supply of gas and Water, and the improvement scheme by which slums were cleared away and forty acres laid out in new streets and open spaces.
	www.1911ency.org /C/CH/CHAMBERLAIN_JOSEPH.htm (741 words)

	Joseph Chamberlain
		Joseph Chamberlain was British Colonial Secretary from 1895 to 1903.
		Chamberlain opposed a number of key aspects of the Bill including the Rights of the Privy Council and there was much tension during the negotiations.
		Chamberlain clearly indicated to their representative, attending the conference as an observer, that Federation would proceed without Western Australia if necessary.
	www.liswa.wa.gov.au /federation/fed/031_cham.htm (187 words)

	Chamberlain \| Charles Joseph \| 1863-1943 \| American botanist
		Charles Joseph Chamberlain, born 23 February 1863 and died 5 January 1943, is known for bringing zoological techniques to bear on plant study, microscopic studies of the tissue and the cell in particular.
		AA Wright was the Oberlin polymath who taught Chamberlain his botany; he taught geology and zoology as well, and is probably responsible for his famous pupil's notion of wedding two of these disciplines.
		Young Charles Joseph was the son of Esdell W. and Mary Spencer Chamberlain.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0573.html (379 words)

	Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
		Joseph Chamberlain is a sixth form college independently governed by its own Corporation and funded by the Government.
		We are not a school sixth form; nor are we part of a large FE college (as is the case with most sixth form centres).
		Tutors at Joseph Chamberlain have very high expectations; we expect our students to work hard and to meet demanding targets.
	www.jcc.ac.uk /welcome.php (272 words)

	Joseph Chamberlain Wilson Biography / Biography of Joseph Chamberlain Wilson Biography
		Joseph Chamberlain Wilson (1909-1971) was the manager of the Haloid Company which, through Wilson's vision, bought the rights to developing the process later called xerography and became, in 1961, the Xerox Corporation.
		Joseph Chamberlain Wilson was born on December 19, 1909, in Rochester, New York.
		His grandfather, also named Joseph C. Wilson, settled in the city in the late 19th century and in 1903 helped found M. Kuhn Co., which in 1906 became the Haloid Company, and still later would become the Xerox Corporation.
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	Neville Chamberlain prime minister from Birmingham
		Neville Chamberlain was born in 1869, the son of Joseph Chamberlain.
		Whatever our thoughts on Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement policy of the time it should be considered in some ways fortunate that an ill-prepared Britain was given more time to prepare for war which commenced in 1939 after Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia.
		The military disaster in Norway forced Chamberlain to resign in May 1940 and he was succeeded by Winston Churchill.
	www.birminghamuk.com /nevillechamberlain.htm (208 words)

	CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1... - Online Information article about CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1...
		At the general election of 1892 Mr Chamberlain was again returned, with an increased majority, for West Birmingham; but the Unionist party as a whole came back with only 315 members against 355 Home Rulers.
		Mr Chamberlain's influence in the Unionist cabinet was soon visible in the Workmen's Compensation Act and other measures.
		Mr Chamberlain and his supporters argued that since 187o certain other countries (Germany and the United States), with protective tariffs, had increased their trade in much larger proportion, while English trade had only been maintained by the increased business done with British colonies.
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	Joseph Chamberlain, 1836-1914 — www.greenwood.com
		Chamberlain might seem a specialized area of research, but he affected many of the great individuals and events of the late Victorian era.
		In this regard, the present title would be an appropriate purchase for most academic libraries and those public libraries whose readers have a deep interest in the history of British politics and foreign affairs.
		Description: Joseph Chamberlain's political career was immense, embracing the campaign for state education, municipal reform, opposition to Irish home rule, social reform, foreign and colonial affairs, and imperial preference.
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	JOSEPH W. AND ORVILLE T. CHAMBERLAIN PAPERS, 1829-1932
		Joseph Chamberlain had six children by two marriages. Two of these children are represented in his papers: Orville Tryon (1841–1929) and Tully (ca.
		Orville Tryon Chamberlain was born in Leesburg, Indiana, taught school in Elkhart for three years, then left to attend the University of Notre Dame. He graduated in 1861 and promptly joined the 74
		The majority of correspondence dates from 1860–69 concerns Orville Chamberlain’s experiences during and immediately following the Civil War. While most of these letters primarily consist of letters to his father describing army life, there is one that contains an excellent account of the action at Missionary Ridge.
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	Guide to the Papers of Joseph Perkins Chamberlain (1873-1951)1933-1951 RG 278
		Chamberlain was the director of the Legislative Drafting Research Fund at Columbia University and in that capacity contributed to the improvement of statute law.
		Besides his career in law, Chamberlain took an active part in the work of refugee agencies, private and government, national and international, Jewish and non-Jewish, which were originally established to deal with the German-Jewish refugee problem provoked by the rise to power of the Nazi party in 1933.
		Chamberlain was either on the Board of Directors or worked in an advisory capacity for all of the organizations represented in this series.
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	Joseph Chamberlain -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Joseph Chamberlain, detail of an oil painting by Frank Holl, 1886; in the National Portrait …
		The pact gained for Chamberlain a share (with Vice President Charles G. Dawes of the United States) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1925.
		As British foreign secretary from 1924 to 1929, Austen Chamberlain helped negotiate the Locarno Pact, a group of treaties intended to secure peace in western Europe by guaranteeing the boundaries of the pact's seven signatory nations, providing for their collective security, and paving the way for the entry of Germany into the League of Nations.
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	Joseph Chamberlain
		Domestic gas, electricity, the demolition of slums and the creation of Corporation Street were all his ideas, and by the 1890s Birmingham, thanks to Joseph Chamberlain, became known as 'the best governed City in the World'.
		For the last years of his life Chamberlain lived in a splendid gothic house, Highbury.
		He was married three times and his son by his second marriage was Neville Chamberlain, sometime Lord Mayor of Birmingham and British Prime Minister at the outbreak of World War II.
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	Modern History Sourcebook: Joseph Chamberlain: The Radical Programme, 1885
		New conceptions of public duty, new developments of social enterprise, new estimates of the natural obligations of the members of the community to one another, have come into view, and demand consideration....
		Politics is the science of human happiness, and the business of a statesman and of politicians is to find out how they can raise the general condition of the people; how they can increase the happiness of those who are less fortunate among them.
		Chamberlain's Speeches, (London: Constable and Co., 1914), pp.
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	A British Viewpoint on Imperialism
		The speech of the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, at the annual dinner of the Royal Colonial Institute on March 31, 1897
		Moreover, Germany's insistence on her 'place in the sun' as well as the rapid advance of the U.S. as an industrial giant seemed to diminish the hitherto dominant role played by Britain in world affairs.
		The time had come to reassert the idea of empire, and there was no greater champion of that idea than Joseph Chamberlain.
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