Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monsieur" Chamberlain. Out of the question of whether Poland, as well as Germany, shall be given a permanent seat on the League Council (TIME, March 1) there arose last week a notable furore which centered about the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain. It threatened indeed to tarnish for the first time the glory which he won by steering the Locarno Conference to a successful conclusion (TIME...
Speaking at Birmingham, the political seat of the Chamberlain family, Sir Austen incautiously gave the impression that he expected to attend the special session of the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations, called for March 8, with complete freedom to offer British support to the candidacy of Poland and that he would very probably do so if "circumstances" seemed to warrant...
...usually imperturable Manchester Guardian cried: "Sir Austen Chamberlain stands almost alone in this country in his willingness to open the door of the League Council to French intrigue. It is difficult to believe that he has or can obtain the support of the Cabinet. He will certainly never obtain that of the country. . . . If he persists in his present line of action, the tender shoot of Locarno will wither at birth...
Having harkened well to this tempest about his ears, whooped up by editors who called him "Monsieur" Chamberlain, Sir Austen at length announced in the House of Commons that the Government position in this matter was as yet undetermined. An Honorable Member queried: "Is it not a fact that the extraordinary League session now assembling is being convoked to deal exclusively with the question of Germany's admission?" Testily Sir Austen snapped: "That is no fact...
...dissipate these cross-reflections, they harkened to the words of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain: "I am tired of the palpable untruth that this Government is in Irak for the oil that British capitalists can get out of the Mosul region. If we were after oil we could have had the concession for all the oil in Mosul and concessions for anything else we liked. . . . I was approached by a Turkish representative last March with the proposition that Great Britain should have the exploitation of all the oil in the Vilayet of Mosul, provided that Turkey should be granted...