Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Oswald Mosley (Laborite son-in-law of arch Tory the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) demand of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain under what treaty rights British troops are being sent to Chinese soil...
...Austen, elevated the eyebrow opposite to that which is clamped down over his monocle, replied frigidly: "The Right Honorable member from Smethwick* must know that the right of a state to protect its nationals does not depend on 'treaty right.'" ¶ Defeated by a majority of 178 a Laborite resolution against the Government's proposal to reform the trade union law (TIME, Feb. 21). Since the exact nature of the changes which the Cabinet will propose have been kept secret, the debate last week was ingeniously based on conjecture. Said Laborite John R. Clynes...
...Secretary of State had, with good reason, felt it his duty to issue a statement about China. From London, Sir Austen Chamberlain had issued one and was preparing to issue another. Up at the Capitol, Congress was resolving about it. Headlines were black. In Chinese harbors and muddy rivers, U. S. gunboats rocked...
Next day, however, Mr. Kellogg said something original-something more than Sir Austen had been willing to say. He said the U. S. would consider a diplomatic China to exist if the chief contending factions would agree on a joint delegation to represent China. This was a great advance, but Mr. Kellogg did not put it in writing, and there is no immediate likelihood that the Chinese factions will agree...
Ingratiating Tail. When news of this threatening reaction in China to Britain's mobilization reached London, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain tried to calm the Chinese by issuing a most conciliatory statement. He said that Britain is now ready to change the whole status of foreigners in China as follows: 1) Remodeling of the system ("extraterritoriality") whereby foreign malefactors in China have been tried before consular courts of their own nation. Britain now proposes that suits brought by Britons in China shall be tried by the Chinese courts; and suits brought against Britons shall be tried under Chinese...