Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argument brought once more into the national arena a figure once prominent there, for one of the arguers of the. State's case in the support of the law was George E. Chamberlain...
...Chamberlain, now a man of 70, is a Mississippian by birth, a graduate of Washington and Lee University?in short, a man reared in the traditions of the South. His mature life has been spent in Oregon. It is perhaps significant that he taught school in Oregon until he could secure a law practice. He served in the State legislature, became State Attorney General, from 1902 to 1908 served as Governor...
...Because, without U. S. cooperation, the Protocol was seriously crippled. (What Mr. Chamberlain doubtless meant was that- although a definite entente between the U. S. and Britain cannot be proved to exist- no Government in Britain or in the British Dominions would today care to align itself against the U. S. The same might be said in a converse case, for it remains a fact that the foreign policies of the two countries, discounting inevitable differences of opinion, are to a large extent identical. Concrete expression of this premise is difficult, but it is notable that at no point...
...Because the use of force against an aggressor in cases where economic sanctions had failed is strangely out of place in the Protocol, which was designed primarily to promote peace. Mr. Chamberlain said that war was in the pathology of international life; and, just as it was a bad thing for men to think too much about the possibility of disease, so it was wrong for the Protocol to stress...
Briand. After hearing Mr. Chamberlain's speech, the Council adjourned for luncheon; and M. Briand had three hours in which to prepare his reply and to obtain a confirmatory statement from his Government in Paris. When the Council reassembled, it was obvious that the impression made by Mr. Chamberlain's well-reasoned reading of his Government's document was gloomy; as M. Briand subsequently put it: "I had the impression of being in blackness, in a tunnel where there was no light." Rising, however, in a later session, M. Priand, seven times Premier of France, vigorously assailed...