Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole incident becomes utterly grotesque when one asks, "Well, what is the 'situation' which Sir Austen so brusquely declared 'unchanged...
...following day Sir Esme Howard felt obliged to say: "My statement was ... an expression of my personal opinion . . . and not given under instructions from my Government...
...better understands the liking of U. S. citizens for frank and clear-cut statements than His Majesty's popular and astute Ambassador at Washington, Sir Esme Howard. Last week Sir Esme tried to make a statement which would represent the position of the British Government with respect to naval limitation and would be at the same time clear-cut and frank. He said...
...said with entire confidence that the position of the British Government with respect to naval limitation is exactly as stated by Sir Esme. But 24 hours after he spoke people with good hindsight could see that he had made a shocking blunder from the viewpoint of the Empire's Foreign Secretary, frigid, be-monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...Sir Austen cannot or will not stoop to "talk American." He will not permit his good intentions to be paraded stark naked before anybody. Therefore when the British press quoted Sir Esme as saying that "before long" something will be done about naval limitation, Sir Austen speared the Ambassador with a statement as sharp and chill as an icicle: "There has been no change in the situation...