Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Execution." Mr. David Lloyd George was chosen by all the opposition parties to lead the attack upon Conservative Goliath Baldwin's Government. With well pondered malice, the fiery David twirled his verbal sling and loosed a stinging pebble: a resolution to reduce Sir Austen's salary. Quoth slinger George: "The Geneva fiasco has created a bad impression abroad . . . led to a very unpleasant discussion in the U. S. Senate [see NATIONAL AFFAIRS] . . .[and] probably antagonized the U. S. as nothing else could have done." Continuing at length but in choppy and disjointed style, Mr. George then slung...
...Scaffold." Sir Austen "ascended the scaffold," to reply with extraordinary bitterness...
Thus, with his nerves jangling and raw after the adjournment of the League without admitting Germany (TIME, March 29), Sir Austen Chamberlain, the erstwhile "hero of Locarno" (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.), returned to hear the jibe that "he strangled the Locarno peace dove with his own hands."* Cheerlessly Sir Austen sought his home. Two days' rest were vouchsafed to him. He slept, thumbed the recently published Intimate Papers of Colonel House for relaxation, and drafted with a vitriolic pen his "speech of accounting" to the House of Commons...
...Briand was expected by his countrymen to insert Poland as a buttress against anti-French influence on the Council from Germany. Chancellor Luther was daily instructed from Berlin that he must withdraw the German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League and the Locarno Pacts nailed down. Unfortunately, Sir Austen was obliged to admit, tacitly at least, that he had secretly...
...Council approved a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain to invite the U. S. to send a representative to a projected assembly of the nations now adhering to the World Court, at which the reservations set forth by the U. S. Senate (TIME, Feb. 8, THE CONGRESS) as the conditions of U. S. adherence to the World Court might be amicably considered. Sir Austen called attention to the fact that this proposal is designed to speed up action by the Court nations upon the U. S. reservations, since if the whole matter should be thrashed out by diplomatic notes among...