Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harmoniously does this declaration chime with the views of Secretary Kellogg that last week British editors began to warn British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain not to let himself be outsmarted by Dr. Stresemann in securing the goodwill of the U. S. Sir Austen, obviously embarrassed, soon made an unfortunate public allusion at Birmingham to the "unwisdom of sacrificing old friends to gain new ones." Thereupon he was heavily taken to task by the Olympian London Times, which usually supports him but declared last week: "The French position is specifically and narrowly French. . . . British opinion in this country...
...CHAMBERLAIN BROTHERS-Sir Austen (British Foreign Secretary) and Neville (Minister of Health...
...House (TIME, Feb. 20), Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was sorely nettled, last week, when Labor hecklers peppered him with questions designed to make him admit that the Flappers Bill is actually opposed by three leading members of his Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead...
...Since Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain continued, last week, to hobnob with Dutch Royalty at the Hague (TIME, April 23), it became the duty of his trusted Under Secretary, Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson to salute the House in substance as follows: His Majesty's Government considers that no useful purpose would be served by making representations to the Government of the United States respecting the repudiation by the Confederate States of their obligations to British bondholders...
...Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, journeyed to The Hague and settled down for a fortnight's visit as the house guest of U. S. Minister to the Netherlands Richard Montgomery Tobin. Presently Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands bade Sir Austen to come and take dinner at the unpretentious, neatly painted mansion which serves as Her Majesty's palace. Placid Dutch courtiers admitted that Crown Princess Juliana, 19, is beginning to ponder whether she should take as a useful consort one of the British King-Emperor's younger sons: Prince Henry, 28, or Prince George...