Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public acts of Premier Baldwin's Government, last week, let two sizable cats out of the Cabinet's bag, the drawstrings of which have been kept knotted tightly at secret Cabinet sessions for weeks. It was clear that the moderate Baldwin-Chamberlain*; cabinet-faction had finally composed their differences with the reactionary Churchill†-Birkenhead** group. Swift action followed, letting the cats...
...street and clear to the man in the gutter. Had such a note been addressed to the U. S., French, or Italian Government by the British it would have constituted an insult, only to be avenged by war. Paradoxically the mild, peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain was obliged to sign this note as Foreign Secretary. His was another slice of the Cabinet Compromise (see below...
...AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN...
...Heard Oswald Mosley (Laborite son-in-law of arch Tory the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) demand of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain under what treaty rights British troops are being sent to Chinese soil...
...Chao-tsin, Chinese representative to the League of Nations, deposited with the League last week a copy of a note despatched to British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, stating that Great Britain has violated Article X of the League Covenant, and the Washington treaties by sending troops to China...