Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meeting. A laughing green-clad woman stood upon the Dolphin's deck beside Sir Austen. She was the onetime Ivy Muriel Dundas, his wife - by royal creation a Dame of the British Empire (TIME, Dec. 14). When the purple orchids were handed on board she pinned them bravely upon her green dress. With the orchids came a card: "Benito Mussolini sends his kindest happy greetings to Lady Chamberlain...
Swart, bullnecked, purposeful, Premier Mussolini followed his orchids, strode on board, shook the hand of Sir Austen warmly, kissed the hand of Dame Chamberlain. A steward bustled forward. Cocktails of Italian vermuth in each of which reposed an olive were lifted high...
Significance. Newsgatherers wrote glibly for a day about "The Entente of Leghorn." They hinted profoundly at a dark deal between Sir Austen and Il Duce to "counterbalance" the Franco-German "Entente of Thoiry" (see p. 14). Then Sir Austen climbed into a wagonlit, sped to Paris, conferred with Foreign Minister Briand, returned to London. By common consent the correspondents decided that all bets in favor of an "Entente of Leghorn" were...
...Austen Chamberlain himself furnished the only verbatim report of anything which passed between the two statesmen. Said he: "I said to Premier Mussolini: 'You should follow my example and take a long rest aboard a yacht. That is the only way to attain true tranquillity...
Continuing, Sir Austen said...