Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street and clear to the man in the gutter. Had such a note been addressed to the U. S., French, or Italian Government by the British it would have constituted an insult, only to be avenged by war. Paradoxically the mild, peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain was obliged to sign this note as Foreign Secretary. His was another slice of the Cabinet Compromise (see below...
...AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN
Chinese Cat. With the Churchill-Birkenhead Russophobe cat out of the Cabinet's bag and mewing rather plaintively in the streets, Sir Austen Chamberlain could rejoice in the enthusiastic reception given by the whole British press to an announcement he was able to make, last week, concerning China...
This was that the Cabinet would not pursue a Chinaphobe policy in an effort to wrest back the British concession at Hankow from the Chinese Nationalists who recently seized it by mob force (TIME, Jan. 17). Sir Austen made public, last week, the secret text of the present Chino-British agreement concerning Hankow (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.); and this was found to be a quiet peaceable undertaking to administer Hankow in future by a Chino-British Council on which Chinese would slightly predominate...
...Chao-tsin, Chinese representative to the League of Nations, deposited with the League last week a copy of a note despatched to British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, stating that Great Britain has violated Article X of the League Covenant, and the Washington treaties by sending troops to China...