Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Banquet. A formal luncheon at the British Foreign Office loomed finally, to divert their Spanish Majesties from too light hearted enjoyment. Though Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and his wife received all other guests at the head of the crimson carpeted Foreign Office stairway, they descended to the quadrangle as the purr of King Alfonso's limousine was heard. His Majesty gave to Lady Chamberlain his arm. Her Majesty was escorted by lank, bemonacled Sir Austen. British Royalty, having previously entertained their Spanish Majesties at Buckingham was not present. All dined in the great room in which was signed...
Transparently the Baldwin Cabinet is badly strained over its attitude toward Russia. Ministers Churchill, Joynson-Hicks and Lord Birkenhead, ultra -Conservatives, reputedly did all in their power last week to induce Foreign Minister Chamberlain, Premier Baldwin and other cool heads to "stop selling British pots to Bolshevik cannibals...
...Alanson Bigelow Houghton, wife of the U. S. Ambassador, was of course responsible for the presentation of U. S. maids and matrons, daughters and wives either of members of the diplomatic corps or of intrinsically potent fathers, husbands. By special dispensation of the Lord Chamberlain, these gentlemen were permitted?for the first time?to peer from the door of an anteroom upon the ceremony. None were themselves presented...
...Council Committee on the vexed question of whether other nations than Germany should be admitted to the Council at the September session. 4) Debate upon a proposal to curtail the supervision now exercised by the League over Hungarian state finance. 5) Consideration of a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain requesting modifications in the established procedure of the Council in dealing with petitions from racial minorities...
...victorious Wafd parliamentarians assembled next day at a luncheon where spirits ran low. All were acutely conscious that the battleship Resolution was steaming toward Port Said from the British naval base at Malta. All knew that British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain had just cabled in especially imperious vein* to the impotent Egyptian government. When Zaghlul Pasha rose, all emotion, the Wafd beheld how Pyrrhic was its victory...