Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rugby, to aristocratic Trinity College, Cambridge. Then, in order that he might meet statesmen who really mattered, he went to Germany. He became almost intimate with Bismarck, a great feat for a stripling. The Kaiser himself was reported to have listened without displeasure to the conversation of young Austen Chamberlain...
...this pleased mightily Austen's father, the late beloved "Joe" Chamberlain, Lord Salisbury's great Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs. All this training in old school diplomacy seemed strangely passe last week when Austen Chamberlain grown up to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was called upon to deal with that smouldering son of a blacksmith,* Benito Mussolini...
Radioed Request. Signor Mussolini, who was carrying bricks as a stonemason's helper when young Austen Chamberlain was Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1895-1900), cabled the British Foreign Office last week his desire for a personal conference with Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. Underlings at the Foreign Office palpitated, scurried. The request of Il Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard...
There is reason therefore to watch the informal meetings of French Foreign Minister Briand with Chancellor Streseman; and all the more reason because these meetings have been succeeded by equally surprising meetings between Mussolini and Austen Chamberlain. No one will yet whisper a word; but watchers will stare long at the graphic possibility,--England and Italy grouped, France and Germany joined...
...cigar had burned to a well-mouthed stump and he discovered that he possessed no other cigars. Foreign Minister Briand of France, resourceful, smilingly proffered a packet of French cigarets from which Dr. Stresemann selected one without enthusiasm. Upon this tableau of Franco-German concord Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain (as lean as M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann are fat) cast a thin but approving smile...