Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While at Geneva for the 34th meeting of the Council of the League of Nations (see Page 8)., it was but natural that Foreign Ministers Austen Chamberlain of Britain and Aristide Briand of France should discuss the all-important question of European security, which means a stable peace in Western Europe. Background to the statesmen's discussions...
...Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, replied to critics that he had no intention of resuming negotiations with Bolshevik Russia. "I shall," he said, "consider any proposals made to me, but I have no intention of initiating them...
...studies history studies nothing else at Oxford. It is assumed that his public school has given him an education sufficiently broad to permit him to follow out his own interests, and that his conversation with his fellows will complete the process. The student of history will read his Jane Austen like any other educated man, and will not need English 29 to encourage him to do so. But in many colleges this assumption is untrue. One of the best of Oxford colleges has recently instituted a system of general essays for its undergraduates, on such subjects as "Is the cinema...
...issue a new conversion loan of $150,000,000 to leak into the City. Mr. Churchill cleared himself by stating that a permanent and non-partisan Treasury official had investigated the leak, found nothing. The House was mollified. ¶A Conservative, name omitted in cable despatches, asked Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain if any attempt had been made to collect the British debts repudiated by the Southern states of the U. S. after the Civil War.* CHAMBERLAIN...
...Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain made a long and important speech on foreign policy in relation to proposed peace measures on the Continent (see column...