Just recently, the term “Umbrella Man” has popped up again,
once more in a mysterious context, but with no reference to Neville Chamberlain. E.g.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/05/30/who-is-umbrella-man-mystery-vandal-at-minneapolis-riot-spurs-conspiracies/
Examples of earlier American use, where Chamberlain was the
allusion:
Lyndon Johnson running against Coke Stevenson for Senator,
in 1948:
“Isolationist” was another word he [i.e., LBJ] drummed into his
listeners -- until he started using a stronger word: “appeaser”. Stevenson, he said, “is an umbrella man. … He talks Chamberlain talk … He wants another Munich.”
-- Robert Caro, The Years of
Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (1990), p. 254
[The above is the latest footnote to the following light-hearted exercise:
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