Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in London, Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain barely deigned an allusion to the phrase "world revolution" while assuring the House of Commons that Britons were adequately protected in Shanghai. When a certain newsgatherer popped a question about "world revolution" at U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, in Washington, it was reported that he "seemed annoyed, but not more nervous than usual." Finally, the Federal Council of Churches, most heeded mouthpiece of U. S. Protestantism expressed "sympathy for the Chinese people...
...international cob-web's trembling, Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann of Germany assumed the role of peaceable mediator, intimated that Germany would proffer her good offices between Russia and Rumania in the Bessarabia dispute. He vigorously scouted the "British Bloc" story as follows: "The British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain has never intimated to me a desire to build up a bloc of European nations against Russia, but has, on the contrary, categorically denied to me any such intentions...
Since Foreign Ministers Stresemann and Chamberlain were both in Geneva, last week (See THE LEAGUE) , newsgatherers rushed in to ask Sir Austen the nature of relations now existing between Britain and the Soviet Republics. He, obviously displeased at the question, answered shortly: "Very...
...During the week French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, both representing their countries at the Council table, made good use of leisure moments to persuade German Foreign Minister Stresemann and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, to resume pourparlers for a German-Polish commercial entente which had seemed to be breaking down of late. Once again was seen the peculiar, inherent importance of League sessions-they bring into peaceful personal contact statesmen who might otherwise quarrel over the telegraph...
...Chamberlain brothers. (Austen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Neville, Minister of Health. They are sons of the late Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, right hand man to potent Mr. Gladstone...