Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain reviewed the existing status quo in China with especial reference to British interests. Said he: "The Government of Canton is for the time being under influences which are so blindly anti-British that the Cantonese are not open to a reasonable settlement" (of the anti-British commercial boycott* declared by the local Chinese Bolshevist Government at Canton [TIME, June 29] in defiance of the impotent "Government of China" at Peking...
Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain (brother of Sir Austen) vigorously attacked a resolution moved by Dr. E. Graham Little (Senior Physician of the East London Hospital for Children), in which it was demanded that an "authoritative inquiry be made into the whole position of irregular practitioners" (chiropractors, osteopaths, "bone setters...
...Championing these gentry, Mr. Chamberlain queried oratorically amid lively applause, "Why should not we be free to take advantage of the skill of any man qualified or unqualified, it being understood that anyone who goes to an unqualified man goes at his own risk, and must take the consequences?" The temper of the House was seen to be so markedly against the resolution that it was allowed to peter out by general assent, although no actual vote was taken. U. S. physicians recalled that famed vegetarian G. B. Shaw and numerous other enlightened Englishmen swear by the officially non-existent...
...been scurrying about looking for a "formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME, Feb. 8, FRANCE...
Finally, as dinner time approached, the expensive part of the entertainment was revealed. The Lord Chamberlain threw open the doors of the Frederick the Great Salon. Wilhelm strode proudly in; deigned to express by a gesture that the room had just been "newly furnished with beautiful bronzes, together with brocaded hangings" and many another embellishment imported from Germany...