Word: austen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vickers-Armstrongs is Britain's big munitions exporter. It operates subsidiary plants in Italy, Japan, Rumania, Spain and The Netherlands. Stock in Vickers or allied enterprises has been held by such famed Peace Men as Sir Austen Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Lord Balfour and Dean Inge of St. Paul's. Its greatest salesman was a Greek by the name of Basileios Zacharias, who now, in his dotage, is known to the world as Sir Basil Zaharoff. Sir Basil is responsible for the ultimate technique of armament salesmanship: Sell one country an order and use it as a talking...
...President Walter Runciman, the Board of Trade put into effect a 20% increase of duty on most French imports. When it was presented to the House of Commons for approval three days later, only a handful of Laborites and Free Traders voted against it. Even monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain, famed as Britain's ablest Francophile, voted for the tariff. More in sorrow than in anger he announced...
Realizing his error next day Laborite Jones humbly apologized to Sir Austen in the House: "I am the more grieved that I made the statement because it was applied to a right honorable member whose unfailing courtesy has won the unstinted admiration of the whole House. I hope the House will acquit me of any malicious intent, and in offering my apology to the right honorable member himself, I hope he will find it possible to forgive, if not to forget...
...Will the House allow me," handsomely replied Sir Austen, "to thank the right honorable gentleman for the very handsome way in which he has treated this incident, and to say I hope it will not weaken, but will confirm the friendly relations which should exist between members sitting on opposite sides of the House...
Hawk-nosed, bemonocled Conservative Sir Austen, Knight of the Garter, then crossed from the Government to the Opposition side of the House, sat down beside Mr. Jones, warmly pressed his hand and sympathized in his trouble...