Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League Assembly Hall and Secretariat will shortly rise upon the Bartholoni property and on adjacent lots. Sir Eric's good humor vanished as he settled down to the vast batch of despatches which are his perennial due. Ominous developments concerning the League were occurring at London (see COMMONWEALTH, "Chamberlain Grilled"), at Berlin (see GERMANY, "Tirpitz Roused"), at Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "Houghton Stumbles...
Thus, with his nerves jangling and raw after the adjournment of the League without admitting Germany (TIME, March 29), Sir Austen Chamberlain, the erstwhile "hero of Locarno" (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.), returned to hear the jibe that "he strangled the Locarno peace dove with his own hands."* Cheerlessly Sir Austen sought his home. Two days' rest were vouchsafed to him. He slept, thumbed the recently published Intimate Papers of Colonel House for relaxation, and drafted with a vitriolic pen his "speech of accounting" to the House of Commons...
From Geneva, Switzerland, press correspondents sent out despatches that provoked excitement in the U. S. Senate. It appeared that at the instance of Austen Chamberlain, the Council of the League of Nations took measures to summon a meeting of nations next September to which it was understood that the U. S. would be invited, arid at which the matter of the U. S. reservations in joining the World Court would be clarified and the necessary acceptance gained for the U. S. reservations...
...expected by his countrymen to insert Poland as a buttress against anti-French influence on the Council from Germany. Chancellor Luther was daily instructed from Berlin that he must withdraw the German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League and the Locarno Pacts nailed down. Unfortunately, Sir Austen was obliged to admit, tacitly at least, that he had secretly committed...
...Council approved a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain to invite the U. S. to send a representative to a projected assembly of the nations now adhering to the World Court, at which the reservations set forth by the U. S. Senate (TIME, Feb. 8, THE CONGRESS) as the conditions of U. S. adherence to the World Court might be amicably considered. Sir Austen called attention to the fact that this proposal is designed to speed up action by the Court nations upon the U. S. reservations, since if the whole matter should be thrashed out by diplomatic notes among...