Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamberlain...
TIME, Nov. 30 refers to Joe Chamberlain as being Foreign Secretary in Gladstone's cabinet...
...Preliminaries. Sir Austen Chamberlain, recently knighted British Foreign Secretary, headed the table, with Premier Baldwin on his right, and on his left Sir Cecil Hurst, famed British jurist, whose duty it was to officially certify the credentials of the plenipotentiaries: M. Briand, Premier and Foreign Minister of France; Signor Scialoja, head of the Italian delegation to the League of Nations; MM. Vandervelde, Benes and Skrzynski, respectively Foreign Ministers of Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland; Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann of the German Reich...
Amid an awkward pause, Dr. Luther and Herr Stresemann arose and quitted the gallery. A few minutes later Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain appeared and smoothed matters over as follows...
...Briand's luggage, as he departed from London after signing the Locarno Treaties (see INTERNATIONAL), nestled a silver loving cup, the gift of Sir Austen Chamberlain. Engraved upon it were the words, A mon ami, Aristide Briand. Souvenir de Locarno. With a sigh, M. Briand quitted the scene of his greatest triumph; rushed home to Paris where his newly formed Government (TIME, Dec. 7) has none too many friends. Within a few short hours he was engaged in fighting what he himself described as the most desperate battle of his political career...