Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None the less the press busied itself with the affirmatives of all these denials for many days. Finally it was denied all round that Sir Austen Chamberlain and Aristide Briand have also been offered Wilson Foundation Peace Prizes but have refused them...
Alas! such was not the case. That appointment, if it had ever been made, would have changed the history of the world. Gladstone never was able to estimate Chamberlain's true worth. You will remember that Macaulay writes of Gladstone as one of those "stern and unbending Tories." Macaulay was right. Gladstone was an aristocrat by birth. It was just as true of him as any other human being that "environment will never totally eradicate the taint of heredity...
Gladstone could not and did not overlook the fact that Chamberlain had "come up from trade," while Spencer Compton Cavendish (by courtesy styled the Marquis of Hartington) was a scion of the nobility. And a comparison of the brain power of those two men would be "odorous...
Gladstone gave Chamberlain a little pettifogging job in two cabinets. And Chamberlain resented both appointments. He was fitted to have filled' the highest position in the gift of Gladstone, that is, out- side of an appointment to some legal office. His (Chamberlain's) widow, the present Mrs. W. H. Carnegie, will contribute something on this subject some...
OTHER EVENTS. 1) The delivery of the originals of the Locarno Pacts by Sir Austen Chamberlain to Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, as provided for in the text of the pacts themselves. 2) The issuance of invitations to prominent economists all over the world to attend a League Preparatory Committee which will organize a World Economic Conference with the broadest possible agenda...