Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President of the congress was Sir Walter Citrine, once a most trusted British working-class leader whom many now consider foolish for having accepted knighthood at the hands of King George. In an exciting keynote address Sir Walter indicted Fascism as "lawless, aggressive imperialism which recognizes no right but the armed force it commands!" However, Sir Walter said: "It is a delusion to imagine that the Labor movement is opposed to war in all circumstances," ended with a stirring battle cry for the League of Nations' friends to fight...
Last week the British League of Nations Union deserted even by Nobel Peace Knight Sir Austen Chamberlain, was cutting its staff, slashing wages, rapidly folding up in a state of gloom...
...Exchequer in 1903. For his work as Britain's Foreign Secretary (1924-29) he got the Nobel Peace Prize and the almost unprecedented honor, for a commoner, of being raised at one stroke to the Knighthood of the Garter, a rank customarily reserved for peers. Then Sir Austen faded into the Conservative Party's greatest wheel horse, wearing his father's monocle, not the orchid...
...Albert Hall last week Son Austen called on an audience of Tory imperialists to vow, in memory of the "first Englishman to see in his mind the British Empire as it is seen today in fact," that "not one yard of territory shall be torn from the Empire." Sir Austen read a telegram of congratulation from King Edward VIII. A portrait of Old Joe 50 ft. high was unveiled and the crowd could not help seeing the striking resemblance to Son Austen on the platform...
...British Minister to Addis Ababa, heroic Sir Sidney Barton, was in London last week on a "leave" from which His Excellency is most unlikely to return to Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...