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...stiff, white strip of sticking plaster was stuck last week over a long gash extending from the forehead to the right eye of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary...
...Austen's limousine was stopped by a cement safety zone, while its glass windows became splinters. A passing motorist rushed him to Westminster Hospital, and next day he was sufficiently recovered to set out for a holiday at Aix-les-Bains, France...
From Aix, Sir Austen planned to go on to the forthcoming League of Nations Council session at Geneva...
...power to cut a thread of life-the slender diplomatic thread linking the two largest countries on the globe. The British Empire had come to the point of severing relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from where he sat between Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped in thought. Yet the extreme nervousness of all three was manifest a little later, when easy-going Mr. Baldwin seemed about to blunder into...
...reply of the Government, through various ministers, was simply that they had, in the words of Sir Austen Chamberlain, "practiced forbearance until forbearance is outworn...