Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word came from Downing Street. Foreign Minister Austen Chamberlain-son of Imperialist Joe*- was as dumb as the lions in Trafalgar Square...
They cabled Mr. Austen Chamberlain to remember...
...Chamberlain forgotten that Hongkong-"place of the sweet lagoon"-was the perfect sapphire in Queen Victoria's crown? Where else did such a roadstead curve so lustrously about the skirts of such island hills? This island, 29 square miles, had been England's since 1842, her Pacific Gibraltar, her Pillar of Hercules between the Torrid and the Temperate Zones, her trademark on the map of China...
...Chamberlain fully realize that the hysterical semi-Bolshevik Government of Southern China, centring at Canton (on the mainland, 75 miles from Hongkong) had banned all British vessels from its waters, that the docks of Hongkong were completely tied up by a sympathetic strike...
...afternoon last week, Grenville Collins, producer of Sun-Up, Lula Vollmer's play of the Carolina Mountains which has an all-American cast,, was called to the telephone by the Lord Chamberlain's Department and asked to provide boxes for the King and Queen that evening. Shortly before the curtain rang up, their Majesties, accompanied by an ample suite, entered the theatre, occupied three left-hand boxes. They stayed to the end of the performance* joined in the ovation given to Miss Lucille Laverne, who played the leading role, made a quiet exit as the audience was kept...