Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain informed the House that, contrary reports notwithstanding, there was no crisis betwen Britain and Russia over anything...
...PUBLIC LIFE-J. A. Spender-Stokes (2 vols., $10.00). Public life, as defined by the author for his purpose, is the profession of statesmen and politicians. This profession he exemplifies by some monographs on famous statesmen and politicians-Bright, Cobden, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Chamberlain, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, George-by analyzing the parliamentary duties of politicians, by contrasting the British parliamentary system with the systems of the U. S., France and Germany, by conducting a brilliant inquiry into the problems of statecraft, by examining the relations between people and press, press and government and by descanting on political ethics...
...Hamilton (Liberal) asked the Government if it intended to intervene in the Moroccan War and, if so, would it permit debate before military and naval operations were begun. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain replied: "I cannot give that assurance. If the Government comes to the conclusion that there is a serious menace in the Tangier zone* its hands must not be tied...
...Internationalized Tangier commands the Strait of Gibraltar. This Strait is at present dominated by Britain at "the Rock" (Gibraltar), and it is a fixed tenet of British policy to brook no rivals. The "menace" referred to by Mr. Chamberlain referred to reports that Abd-el-Krim was preparing to attack the Tangier zone...
French ratification of these treaties cleared the way for the Powers concerned to give effect to their good resolutions concerning China. Unfortunately, the Powers, Britain in particular, have been unable to see the Chinese woods for the trees. British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain in numerous speeches made it evident that the cause of the present Chinese unrest is due to Bolshevik influence, which, of course, Bolshevik Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin indignantly denied. Unbiased reports from China-that is, the average of biased reports, for all communications from that once celestial land are more or less colored-seem unanimous that...