Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britain. Came Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain to Paris en route to Geneva to attend a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations. He had come, he said, to obtain information and not to enter into agreements. From what was known of his conversations with Premier Edouard Herriot, he admitted that British interest was bound up with the preservation of the Franco-German boundary, by which he meant that Britain could not tolerate an unfriendly Power in possession of the Channel ports and the obvious place to prevent an unfriendly Power from seizing those ports is along the Franco...
...London, in answer to a question put in the British House of Commons by Commander Kenworthy, Liberal M. P., Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain stated that a new naval armament conference, to be called by President Coolidge, had been the subject of conversations with the retiring U. S. Ambassador, Frank B. Kellogg...
...Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain informed the House that, under present circumstances, the Government liad no intention of sending an Ambassador to Moscow...
...Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, replying to Colonel Wedgwood (Liberal), made a statement on the British attitude toward the Geneva Protocol (TIME, Dec. 22). He announced that, owing to objections of the Dominions, who believe that the ideals of the Protocol should be realized progressively in a series of practical stages, he would be obliged to request the League of Nations for a further postponement of the Protocol question...
...Minneapolis born, teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, whence he was graduated in 1884. He has long been familiar to readers of drama and poetry criticism in The Nation, The Yale Review and other periodicals. His other two large efforts are studies of Emerson and of Jane Austen...