Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...departure until Jan. 6, in order that he, as doyen* of the diplomatic corps, may remain to give the President the diplomats' New Year's greeting. When M. Jusserand retires, the senior member of the diplomatic corps in Washington will be Senor Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, Chamberlain of the King of Spain and Ambassador of his most Catholic Majesty at Washington since 1913. M. Jusserand was appointed Ambassador to the U. S. in 1903. Burton K. Wheeler, onetime Vice Presidential candidate on the LaFollette ticket, proclaimed on returning to Washington: "I am a Democrat and never ceased...
Policy. From Britain came a reiteration of British policy. The voice was that of Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the place was Birmingham. Said...
...Affaires in London, to the desk of Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Commissar for Foreign Affairs in Moscow, is about 1,600 miles as the crow flies. By means of the wireless, the brusque message (TIME, Dec. 1) of the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Austen Chamberlain, sped across the intervening space in next to no time; and the messages of Georg to Austen sped back by the same route. All this took place within a few days...
...second note concerned a letter alleged to have been sent to British Communists by Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Communist Internationale at Moscow. Rakovsky declared it a forgery; but in this note Mr. Chamberlain stated that "information in the possession of his Majesty's Government leaves no doubt whatsoever in their mind of the authenticity of Zinoviev's letter and his Majesty's Government are therefore not prepared to discuss the matter." He goes on to inveigh against the systematic dissemination of "revolutionary propaganda...
Half an hour later, all Cairo echoed with the news of the attempted assassination. Premier Saad Zaghlul Pasha hurried to the Residency and expressed his deepest regrets and profoundest horror. King Fuad dispatched his Grand Chamberlain to offer his sympathy and regrets. On all sides, obviously sincere horror at the crime was evinced...