Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chinese Cat. With the Churchill-Birkenhead Russophobe cat out of the Cabinet's bag and mewing rather plaintively in the streets, Sir Austen Chamberlain could rejoice in the enthusiastic reception given by the whole British press to an announcement he was able to make, last week, concerning China...
This was that the Cabinet would not pursue a Chinaphobe policy in an effort to wrest back the British concession at Hankow from the Chinese Nationalists who recently seized it by mob force (TIME, Jan. 17). Sir Austen made public, last week, the secret text of the present Chino-British agreement concerning Hankow (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.); and this was found to be a quiet peaceable undertaking to administer Hankow in future by a Chino-British Council on which Chinese would slightly predominate...
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs-Sir Austen Chamberlain...
Secretary of State for Home Affairs-Sir William Joynson-Hicks...
...late famed Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1911) had been toned down to a decorous brown patina. Right Honorable Members looked up at "Joe" Chamberlain, the redoubtable right hand man of the great Gladstone; then they drifted from the Lobby into the Chamber, and there heard "Joe's" son, Sir Austen Chamberlain read an amazing tissue of threats and imprecations against Soviet Russia (see above...