Hastings/government

Famous quotes containing the words hastings and/or government:

“If you can’t get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”
—Max Hastings (b. 1945)

“This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o’clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.”
—Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940)