Word: austen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed "Lady C.", whose husband, Sir Austen Chamberlain, was one of the best friends the League of Nations ever had, visited Rome last winter. There she hobnobbed with League-bolting Il Duce and was credited by diplomats with having done much to smooth the way for the Anglo-Italian Treaty of Friendship which was presently signed, but has never become operative. Reason: By a covering agreement this treaty cannot come into force until substantial numbers of Italian troops have been withdrawn from Spain. Thus last week there was good reason to think Lady C. has just spent a quiet month...
...Majesty's Government's "horror" at civilian losses in Leftist Spain. At Tokyo, British Ambassador Sir Robert L. Craigie objected to "indiscriminate" aerial attacks on Canton. While Laborites in the House of Commons pointedly demanded that Britain do something besides "hold up her hands in horror." Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, outlined a plan to organize a small, neutral, independent, international commission to investigate all bombings...
Mildly irritating at times even to his loyal half-sister-in-law, Lady Austen Chamberlain, widow of the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Austen Chamberlain (see cut), the Prime Minister's mediation talk taxed the patience of Laborites and Liberals. The whole thing was probably best explained by United Press as a gesture designed to appease the rising ire of the British public and released to a pro-Government press for British consumption only...
...Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady who had to rush back to Washington to deal with U. S. strikes when the Conference was not quite half over; French Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux; New Zealand Delegate W. H. T. Armstrong. Stanchest opponents were the United Kingdom delegates headed by Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Secretary of Labor...
With such poor debating competition as this, oldster Lloyd George came off with the day's forensic honors, taunting the Prime Minister with the memory of his late, great halfbrother, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G. "Many times the late Austen Chamberlain in this House," cried Mr. Lloyd George, "said: 'What is the good of making any pact with Germany? She will only keep it as long as it suits her, and the moment she has a good excuse for breaking it, and it suits her, she will break it?' I am sorry to say that...