Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other White House callers, more formal, were Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, First Viscount Allenby, captor of the Holy Land, and Lady Allenby. Mrs. Coolidge entertained Cabinet ladies, newspaperwomen...
...entirely defunct. (TIME, Oct. 29). But the military purpose of the notes remains. Upon it last week interest focused. Revealed was the price exacted by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before he would consent to support against U. S. opposition the naval projects of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The French price, high, was that the British Empire should abandon its traditional policy of opposing the creation of huge conscript reservist armies in peace time by France and her allies: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania...
Bargain & Entente. Document No. 24 in the British "White Paper" contains the germ of the bargain. It officially summarizes a conversation at Geneva on March 9, 1928 between Sir Austen and M. Briand. Excerpts...
...Sir Austen Chamberlain began by regretting that on the two capital naval and military questions the French and British found themselves in diametrically opposed positions. English public opinion believes traditionally that volunteer armies have a defensive character, whereas conscript armies are intended for offensive warfare. On the other hand, he understands that in French opinion obligatory military service appears as a guarantee of a policy of peace, while a volunteer army takes on the character of a pretorian guard...
...support Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government in the coming British elections. Students of English politics recalled, however, that his Toryism is of curiously recent vintage. His was the influence and his the bank account which helped the Liberal Lloyd George to power and kept him there. As Sir Alfred Mond, he took the Ministry of Public Works in the first Lloyd George cabinet...