Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explanation. Sir Austen Chamberlain, when asked by an impertinent U. S. correspondent, last week, to state...
Stocky, stiff-pompadoured Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, who has so long obstructed any settlement not in accordance with his views, was sternly warned, last week, by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. "Sympathy is naturally accorded to small nations," rapped Sir Austen, "but if a weaker nation [Lithuania] goes out of its way to irritate and provoke a more powerful one [Poland] or shows itself unreasonable, it will deprive itself of the sympathy of its neighbors. . . . Ah, M. Valdemaras, do not cast that sympathy away...
Therefore, since the Council cannot act in matters of state if there be even one dissenting vote, the proceedings came to an abrupt, ridiculous halt. Quick to relieve the tension, however, was Sir Austen Chamberlain. "I will introduce," said he sonorously, "a motion which is clearly a matter of procedure, and hence needs only a majority, namely, that the Council put the question of Polish-Lithuanian relations on the agenda of the September session...
Paraphrasers suggested that Sir Austen meant, "A League which used raw, un-mellowed, strong-arm methods and thus antagonized its Member States would diadem sight quicker than will the present milk-and-water League...
...mothers of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and his half brother, Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain, both died in childbirth.* Last week this fact was thought to account for the extraordinary warmth and fervor with which the Minister of Health addressed the House of Commons on the twin themes of maternal mortality and midwifery...