Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britain. Came Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain to Paris en route to Geneva to attend a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations. He had come, he said, to obtain information and not to enter into agreements. From what was known of his conversations with Premier Edouard Herriot, he admitted that British interest was bound up with the preservation of the Franco-German boundary, by which he meant that Britain could not tolerate an unfriendly Power in possession of the Channel ports and the obvious place to prevent an unfriendly Power from seizing those ports is along the Franco...
...Chamberlain advocated acceptance by France of Germany's offer of security. He made it clear that Britain never would undertake to do more than guarantee the Franco-German frontier against unprovoked aggression. He was moreover alleged to have said that, by taking Germany into a five-power Treaty (Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany) the danger of encouraging the latter to form a Russo-German bloc against an Anglo-French bloc would be ended-a clear policy of isolating Russia...
Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain began to outline his policy and stated that it was desirable, in order to prevent Europe from splitting into two armed camps, that Germany should become a party to the proposed treaty of security (see INTERNATIONAL). But when he referred to a secret document that he had received from Germany, the irrepressible Clydesider, "Dave" Kirkwood,* shouted: "Wot abaht the Red letter?"-a reference to the Zinoviev letter which aided the Conservatives in the last election (TIME...
...London, in answer to another of Commander Kenworthy's deep-laid questions, Mr. Chamberlain said...
...Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain informed the House that, under present circumstances, the Government liad no intention of sending an Ambassador to Moscow...