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...that Russia had shipped 17½ tons of gold to Germany. At first the British Foreign Office was highly skeptical of the rumor, but later, when Sir Alfred Knox asked in the House of Commons whether the Government was aware of the report, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going to give Germany the wherewithal to buy raw materials abroad, possibly in fee simple for hands off in the East Baltic...
...collected messages to his chief while Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson authored another White Paper. It was a 12,000-word first-hand study of Hitler, the Nazis and the Germans, written as his final report to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. Perceptive, witty and compassionate as a Jane Austen novel or a Lytton Strachey biography, it steered hard away from the old 1914 concept of the Germans as Huns or their ruler as The Beast of Berlin. Instead, it described them as understandable dupes and Hitler as a powerful but pitiable man. Sir Nevile had further broken precedent...
...Great Britain relied on voluntary enlistments until May 1916. In 1914, 1,186,000 volunteered in 1915, 1,280,000 In the first four months of 1916, 401,000 enlisted. In charge of the draft in Lloyd George's Government was an inconspicuous half-brother of famed Sir Austen Chamberlain, 47-year-old Neville Chamberlain...
...current European history closely and anxiously. Not so familiar to them is the history of the period immediately before it-the sequence of post-War settlements, conferences, treaties that began when the Armistice was signed. Briand with his drooping lips and shaggy head, Stresemann with his dueling scars, Sir Austen Chamberlain with his monocle, his glassy stare and elegance of dress, are names in history books for high-school students, dim recollections for those students' parents...
Unlike his far shrewder halfbrother, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, a skilled diplomat and linguist, Mr. Chamberlain is singularly unequipped for his "personal" chats with the leaders of other nations. During his November visit to Paris he disappointed French radio listeners by saying "I can speak no French." Last week he showed that he had at least learned something. Saying farewell to M. Daladier he beamed: "Merci, thank you, Merci, monsieur, beaucoup, beaucoup, beaucoup...