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Chamberlain's Irish policy was proclaimed in the Radical Programme, which was published before the General Election as the Radical leader's manifesto to the constituencies. This scheme, which Mr. Chamberlain had submitted as a responsible minister to the Cabinet of Mr.
Chamberlain's speech reached Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, there was great indignation among the Boers. The matter was debated by the Volksraad or Parliament, and several members declared that Great Britain must be shown that she no longer had any sovereign rights in the Transvaal. Meetings were held denouncing Mr.
Chamberlain's organs in the Birmingham Press dealt with the black-balling of his brothers in such a fashion as almost to warrant the expectation that Pall Mall would be invaded, and the Reform Club sacked, if it did not repent in dust and ashes of the affront it had offered to the leader of Birmingham Radicalism. Nothing less would suit Mr.
I admire him for it. "The new appointments are certainly of a sensational nature. Montagu becomes Secretary of State for India in Austen Chamberlain's place. Then the most startling thing of all the wonderful Sir Eric Geddes becomes First Lord of the Admiralty! That is very significant indeed.
But I was not satisfied. I was sure some one had called me. I said so, and that I would go to Marsh Chamberlain's to see if anything was wrong. They concluded to go also, and we started. Arriving near the house, I told Pinckney and Thompson to stop outside, and I would go in, and if anything was wrong, would call them.
'He is so powerful that his thoughts are nearly acts, as some one has written of him; and at an age when most men would be wheeled into the chimney-corner, he is at the head of a precarious majority and still retains enough force to compel its undivided support. "Mr. Chamberlain's power springs from the concentration of a nature which is singularly free from complexity.
Because I have dwelt on this side of Mr. Chamberlain's character, it must not be supposed that I have forgotten, or that I desire to minimize, the splendid public services done by him, first in the region of municipal life a priceless contribution then in national politics, and last of all in the wider Imperial sphere. In every part of our public life he lit a torch which will not be extinguished.
I thought mine eyes did not deceive me, as to her beauty, when I caught sight of her from the Lord Chamberlain's gallery." "The Conde de Gondomar hath ever an eagle's eye for a pretty woman," Lord Roos replied, laughing. "The Conde de Gondomar!" mentally ejaculated Jocelyn, who had overheard what he said. "Why, this is he to whom the ring must be shown. The opportunity must not be lost."
A faint cry of wonder escaped the chamberlain's lips. "A golden cup!" exclaimed the King, as he leaned over to gaze at the little object. "How comes that there? Why, Hurst, that little tazza should be in the big cabinet yonder, where the French jewel lies. Quick! Here."
Chamberlain's soaring flight, and thinking of the good county member thus loftily patronizing him. But it was a bold thing to be said at that time of Mr. Chamberlain by Sir Walter Barttelot, and some friends who sat near him thought his charity had led him a little too far. The Sussex squire was of a fine nature simple, ever ready to be moved by generous impulses.
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