Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the boat train which slowly glided into Victoria Station, London, from Folkestone was Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, seven times Premier of France. Upon the station platform, ready to greet his French colleague, was monocled, natty British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, gifted son of "Brummagen Joe," surrounded by a crowd of officials, French and British...
...cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French. "Non," he had nothing to say for publication. The two custodians of their respective countries' foreign policies exchanged smiles and followed them up with an exchange of hearty farewells. M. Briand sped away to the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge. Mr. Chamberlain betook him to his residence in Morpeth Mansions...
Baron Hayashi, Japanese Ambassador to Britain, called upon Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain at the Foreign Office. Both men dipped pen into ink, signed an Anglo-Japanese trade treaty...
There was more to it than that. Behind Mr. Churchill were assumed to be Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and the Secretary for India, Lord Birkenhead, all ex-coalition Ministers. Nasty things were said about Mr. Churchill; he was credited with a desire to oust Premier Baldwin and, with the aid of his coalition comrades, to install himself as Premier...
...Infanta Beatrice of Spain, the Archbishop of Canterbury, J. H. Thomas (onetime engine driver and Colonial Secretary in the Labor Cabinet), the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Garvin (he is Editor of The Observer, London Sunday newspaper), the Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Winston Churchill, Prince and Princess Obolensky, the Colonial Secretary and Mrs. Amery, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Sir Edward and Lady Grigg, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty with Lady Beatty, Sir James Barrie, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Patricia Ramsay...