Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer [Winston Spencer Churchill], since the breakdown of the Conference, has stated specifically: 'Therefore we are unable now-and I hope at all future times-to international embody in a solemn international agreement any words which would bind us to the principle of mathematical parity in naval strength...
Vienna was agog last week when the German Chancellor, Dr. Wilhelm Marx, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, arrived to return the official visit made a year ago to Berlin by the then Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Rudolph Ramek...
...distinguished visitors were met at the station by the leaders of the Austrian governmental hierarchy. A state luncheon followed, at which the German statesmen were formally introduced to Dr. Michael Hainisch, President of the Austrian Republic. In the evening the Chancellor, Dr. Ignaz Seipel, opened the old Imperial Foreign Office, also known as the Ballplatz, for an official reception...
Although the official reason for the visit was that of returning Chancellor Ramek's call, and though it was admitted that the secondary object of the visit was to secure Vienna as an ally at Geneva, it was nevertheless mooted that the real objects were to discuss the anschluss (or union of Austria and Germany) and a preliminary economic entente. Despite denials that these subjects were not broached, it was pointed out that two such distinguished German statesmen, overburdened by the pressure of work, would not make the journey to Vienna for the simple object of discussing a mutual...
After completing his legal studies he entered the diplomatic corps, being stationed at Washington and Petrograd before the War. During the conflict he was attached to the Chancellor's office and in 1920 he was appointed consul at Trieste. In the following year he was made Counselor of the Embassy at Rome, a post that he has held ever since...