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Lady Astor continued to be comforted by the stolid Toryism of the House of Chamberlain, mere second-generation though it is. Sir Austen Chamberlain, he of the affrighting icy monocle, grows dim; but even without a monocle his brother Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, remains perhaps the world's most formidable Tory. Last week Mr. Chamberlain addressed the House of Commons, and Labor in particular, with such withering conservative rebuke that even when he referred to Britain's 2,000,000 unemployed," no M. P. ventured the impertinence of interrupting to observe that Government...
Above, the Locarno signatories. Both dead today, French & German Pollyannas M. Aristide Briand (A) and Dr. Gustaf Stresemann (B) received the Nobel Peace Prize, as did Britain's Austen Chamberlain (C) whom George V rewarded with the Garter. Pessimist Mussolini, who received nothing, was among the original Pact initialers at Locarno, Switzerland but did not come to London for the decorative affixing of signatures at the British Foreign Office. Afterward there was high tea at No. 11 Downing Street. The host: Winston Churchill (D), then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Extreme left and right, inimitable Lucy & Stanley Baldwin, he then...
Twenty months ago Lord Linlithgow assumed chairmanship of Parliament's Joint Select India Committee: 16 members of the House of Lords, including a onetime Viceroy (the Marquess of Reading), and the Archbishop of Canterbury; and 16 members of the House of Commons, including Sir Austen Chamberlain and Laborite Miss Mary Pickford, who has since died. Their duty was to tie up the loose ends left by seven years of plodding British efforts to find for India a more liberal but not too liberal status...
...first five: Everest, Godwin-Austen (28,250), Kanchenjunga (28,146), Makalu (27,790), Dhawalagiri (26,795). All are in the Himalayas and none has been climbed...
...with Sir John, ostentatiously returned last week to Paris. British public opinion was prepared for what was coming by a few intimations that what Europe needs is a return to "the Spirit of Locarno." Nine years ago at Locarno, Switzerland, gold pens squiggled in the hands of Benito Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western frontier of Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff...