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...glad Sir Austen Chamberlain is restored to health,? because now I can start to criticize him! As for Lord Cushendun(t) he is just a lay figure, stuffed and wound up to play the records placed on his gramophone. The Tory foreign policy is not mere folly, it is madness...
...years past, to catch the farmer vote. Further elaboration of the party platform proceeded monotonously and then David Lloyd George jumped up to make his promised keynote attack on Tory foreign policy. His point of savage attack was, of course, the secret Anglo-French naval agreement concluded by Sir Austen Chamberlain just before his nervous breakdown (TIME...
...Anglo-British "gentlemen's agreement" thus: "You can have either diplomacy with a cat well hidden in the bag and kept from mewing, or you can have a cat out of the bag and open to the inspection of everybody. This was not quite secret diplomacy, because Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) mewed and the newspapers mewed and are still mewing...
...tragic factor is that Sir Austen has surrendered the independence of British diplomacy by tying us up with France. The history of 1906 to 1914 is being re written. It is not good for France or Eng land to re-establish any sort of alliance. It would be better to stand shoulder to shoulder, openly, with all the nations of Europe...
Sturdy, English, loyal Stanley Baldwin said of his sick friend: "I want to pay the highest tribute to my colleague, Sir Austen Chamberlain. The whole country and all Europe realize the devotion, skill and patience with which he has handled our foreign affairs for four years. With health renewed, I hope he will handle them four years more. . . . A great part of Europe's progress toward peace is due to his labors, and in those labors he has nearly worn himself...