Word: briand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prize Winner Sir Austen Chamberlain's widow," the Lady of Locarno." Ivy Muriel, Lady Chamberlain, may be remembered longest because one day in Switzerland she gave what cables called "the world's most im portant picnic." This was at Locarno in 1925. Those tireless peace men, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain, were trying to per suade the Republic of Germany to enter the League of Nations and make a final peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose to the emergency. She chartered a small...
Died. Smith Freeman Reavis, 46, Associated Pressman whose Paris interview with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in 1927 led to the Briand-Kellogg Pact; after an operation; in Manhattan. Of the 15 original signatories, two are defunct (CzechoSlovakia, Poland), nine...