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...tribute to the committee which he chairmaned, though the reputed $16,000 will of course go to him. The rest of the 1925 prize, and the two halves of the 1926 prize were awarded last week respectively to the three Foreign Ministers who were the authors of Locarno: Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain), Aristide Briand (France), Gustav Stresemann (Germany). All four recipients received their prizes by proxy at Oslo, the Capital of Norway, last week. By the will of Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) awards the Nobel Peace Prizes. Last week King Haakon VII and Crown Prince...
...inevitable cigaret, chats with it bobbing between his lips and winks now and then a twinkling eye, then his fat is forgotten and the lines of care upon his face seem laughter's wrinkles. Last week he welcomed at Paris his good and amiably-intentioned friend, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary, whose back is like a ramrod and whose monocle is more than glacial. Cordial greetings passed between them. Soon they sat down to discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy, the problems of Rhineland evacuation and many another point which has cropped up since they last...
Mediterranean Rumblings. Setting aside the distant prospect of a Pan-Asian League there loomed the immediate probability that the "T. and T." conference will serve as a counter blast to the understandings arrived at between British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and Premier Mussolini, at their recent meeting (TIME...
...Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary: "My penchant for a haughty monocle having been internationally remarked, I was welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
...Discussed in secret the secretly presented report on foreign affairs of Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain. The report is persistently rumored to contain an allusion to the alleged intention of France to transfer to Italy her troublesome League Mandate in Syria-Italy then to abstain from all interference with French interests in Morocco...