Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge of "truckling to Mussolini" was hurled by Liberal and Labor news organs, last week, at Sir Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's lanky, imperturbable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
...Austen Chamberlain finally noticed the Labor-Liberal clamor by announcing to the House of Commons that, "in deference to the strongly expressed wish of Captain Delafons himself, His Majesty's Ambassador at Rome has authorized the Italian authorities not to prosecute the assailants, who made a strong plea for mercy...
Died. Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, Marquess of Lincolnshire, 85, Ancient of English Liberalism, Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, successively (1881-85) Captain of the Royal Bodyguard; (1885-90) Governor of New South Wales; (1892-95) Lord Chamberlain of the Household and (1905-11) President of the Board of Agriculture; at High Wycombe, England...
Explanation. Sir Austen Chamberlain, when asked by an impertinent U. S. correspondent, last week, to state...
Therefore, since the Council cannot act in matters of state if there be even one dissenting vote, the proceedings came to an abrupt, ridiculous halt. Quick to relieve the tension, however, was Sir Austen Chamberlain. "I will introduce," said he sonorously, "a motion which is clearly a matter of procedure, and hence needs only a majority, namely, that the Council put the question of Polish-Lithuanian relations on the agenda of the September session...