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Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain reviewed the existing status quo in China with especial reference to British interests. Said he: "The Government of Canton is for the time being under influences which are so blindly anti-British that the Cantonese are not open to a reasonable settlement" (of the anti-British commercial boycott* declared by the local Chinese Bolshevist Government at Canton [TIME, June 29] in defiance of the impotent "Government of China" at Peking...
Questioned about the Russo-British debt, Sir Austen cautiously declared: "His Majesty's Government will observe with the closest attention the Russo-French debt negotiations, which I am informed will shortly begin at Paris, in the hope that these may be of a nature to facilitate a renewal of [Russo-British] conversations upon that subject...
Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain (brother of Sir Austen) vigorously attacked a resolution moved by Dr. E. Graham Little (Senior Physician of the East London Hospital for Children), in which it was demanded that an "authoritative inquiry be made into the whole position of irregular practitioners" (chiropractors, osteopaths, "bone setters...
...have been scurrying about looking for a "formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME, Feb. 8, FRANCE...
...Guests. Sir Austen Chamberlain arrived from a "vacation" at Rapallo, Italy, where he is rumored to have secretly reached an Anglo-Italian "understanding" with Premier Mussolini...