Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voted down 271 to 146 a Liberal motion to reduce the salary of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. This technical procedure was intended as a motion of censure against the Cabinet for dispatching its recent intemperate and threatening note to Soviet Russia (TIME, March 7). Paradoxically, Sir Austen, although he signed the vote as Foreign Secretary, was its chief opponent in the Cabinet...
...Heard peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain (see above) declare that relations would not be broken off with Soviet Russia...
...note of protest and warning to Russia (TIME, March 7) he concluded: "It is not Britain who should have protested to us about anti-British propaganda, but we who should have protested to Britain about her anti-Soviet propaganda. The note complained that the Soviet press had caricatured Sir Austen Chamberlain as applauding the hanging of Lithuanian Communists. I say that he not only applauded, but also greased the ropes...
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs-Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...late famed Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1911) had been toned down to a decorous brown patina. Right Honorable Members looked up at "Joe" Chamberlain, the redoubtable right hand man of the great Gladstone; then they drifted from the Lobby into the Chamber, and there heard "Joe's" son, Sir Austen Chamberlain read an amazing tissue of threats and imprecations against Soviet Russia (see above...