Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain pulled a string, the string released a weight, the weight hit a plank, the plank moved a rod, the rod tipped a latchet, the latchet released a spring, the spring opened a door and a ball began to roll...
String. Two months ago, the Germans surreptitiously handed Foreign Secretary Chamberlain a string labelled: "German Security Proposals." Mr. Chamberlain pulled...
Plank. In a speech in the House of Commons, Mr. Chamberlain outlined the attitude of the British Government to the German proposals. Summed up, the British Government regarded them as the beginnings of a political settlement on the Continent, as a substitution of a peace imposed by victors for a peace of amity and understanding...
...Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain made a long and important speech on foreign policy in relation to proposed peace measures on the Continent (see column...
...Beckett, Labor, asked Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain if any understanding existed between the U. S. and British Naval authorities, and if the possibility of the U. S. using the Singapore naval base had ever been discussed. Mr. Chamberlain, replying to the first part of the question, said that he would find it easier to answer if he could be confident that he understood it. He confined himself to saying that there was not, and he hoped there never would be, any misunderstanding between the U. S. and British naval authorities. As regards Singapore, the answer was decidedly in the negative...