Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Office officials would not allow themselves to be quoted, but made the amazing statement that they believed Sir William Joynson-Hicks had ordered the raid without the knowledge of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. They further hazarded the opinion that Sir William might have been ignorant that diplomatic immunity was being violated, and that a broth of trouble was being concocted for the Foreign Office...
...upright man, but a passionate, implacable foe of "Communism" in its every manifestation. He and Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been trying for months if not years to get the Cabinet to break with Russia, against the sober judgment of Premier Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...London, the Opposition kept Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain continually on the grill, answering questions which disputed the veracity of the official British- version of events at Nanking (TIME, April 4) when Chinese rioted and U. S. and British gunboats shelled the city. Finally, in the House of Commons, Captain Duff-Cooper (Conservative) asked Sir Austen whether he knew that the Labor weekly, published by George Lansbury, M. P. (Opposition) had actually declared that the members of the Baldwin Cabinet are collectively responsible for the loss of life at Nanking. "So they are!" shouted Mr. Lansbury. "What I said...
...Austen, cool, said: "I do not feel it my duty as apparently the Honorable Member does, to doubt the word of British representatives in China." Up and down England the fact was apparent that British news from China is becoming a medium for political manipulation and strife...
...after the story is under way, no fairminded reader will deny that Mr. Lardner is doing his flat and level best not to get funny. Chapter Six begins: "It was at a petting party in the Whits House that I first met Jane Austen." He took her to see Gov. Al ("Peaches") Smith, who complimented her: "I thought The Green Hat was a scream...