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GERMAN MENACE
The second volume of Sir Charles I sent his memorandum to his brother Petrie's biography of Austen Cham-Neville, who replied:
berlain,*. covers the years from 1914 I agree entirely with what you say to its subject's death in March, 1837, àbout Ll. G. I rather hoped Derby It leaves one with a much keener ap- might have had the W.O., but under preciation of Austen Chamberlain as Ll. G. the Munitions Ministry has got that a a man and as a high-minded and, de-into such a chaotic muddle voted public servant, while as a po- change there is certainly necessary, litical biography it adds a good deal Austen's account of the formation is critical of to history, especially about the divi- of the second Coalition sions in the Inner Conservative ranks Bonar Law, who, he thought, misled after the war. Sir Charles Petrie is Asquith, into thinking that his Con- admirably concise and without adula servative colleagues had deserted him tion or unnecessary comment lets the for Mr. Lloyd George, when actually life be told substantially in the words they were trying to hold aloof from the of Chamberlain's own letters and personal quarrel: "We have little con- memoranda.
fidence in Bonar Law's judgment and none in his strength of character." India Office, Austen remained at the
distrusted" although he "profoundly the new Premier. Yet when Austen returned to office after the Meso- potamia interruption his personal con- tact with Mr. Lloyd George developed a strong sense of loyalty and admira- tion. It was this, of course, in the that led later years of the Coalition Austen once more into the wilderness and lost him for the second time his chance of the Premiership.
Austen Chamberlain was fortunate in the time of his death. He died in March, 1937, full of forebodings; he had watched with fear the rise of the Nazis and the weakness of British po- licy, but he was spared the crowning spectacle of his brother's attempts to appease the unappeasable' Hitler. Aus- ten had few illusions about Hitler, al- though he cherished them about Mus- solini. He uttered a prophetic warning in the House as long ago as 1935. Early in 1936 he was writing about the need for a Minister of Defence:
In my view. there is only one man who by his studies and his special
abilities and aptitudes is marked out for it, and that man is Winston Churchill. I don't suppose that S. B. will offer it to him, and I don't think that Neville would wish to have him back, but they are both wrong. He is the right man for that post, and in such dangerous times that considera- tion ought to be decisive.
some in-
BALFOUR ON BALDWIN.
Sir Charles Petrie adds teresting points to our knowledge of the Carlton Club "revolution" by which the Coalition was overthrown. There are some painful pages on Aus- ten's relations with his party and on Mr. Baldwin's tactless handling of him. This Austen felt deeply, and his opinon of Mr. Baldwin was not in- creased by the clumsiness with which was the reuniting of the party brought about in 1923. Balfour's com- thement "upon the two days' proceedings was that they would be the richest comedy if the consequences had not been likely to prove so serious." "Ob- aviously," he said, "Baldwin is an idiot
But Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. Neville Chamberlain preferred Sir Thomas Inskip. Then Hitler invaded Rhineland, and Austen felt that next time the Army chiefs will not again seek to hold him back, every country in Europe will feel that England is broken reed, and the end can only be the complete triumph of Germany and, I fear, our own ultimate ruin.
Austen did not live, to see the fate of Austria and the humiliation of Brit- ain at Munich under his own brother. over whose career he had watched with such passionate concern, like hen with one chick," as he said.
a
the only question is whether he is an inspired idiot!" The inspiration was not clear, for the first result was the lost election of 1923,...!!
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Austen's four and a half years the Foreign Office, from 1924 to 1929, were his happiest, and in Locarno he had the triumph of his career, dust and ashes as it now seems. He was bit- terly disappointed at not receiving the same office in 1931 and had the of Sir John Simon. gravest distrust Poor Dollfuss came to London in 1933, not long after Hitler seized power. Austen agreed passionately that Aus- tria was the key. If only Britain would say plainly she was interested in Aus- tria's independence!
I urged him (Dollfuss) to put his whole case before Simon as strongly as he could, but will Simon understand or act. Alast none of them seem to turn to Simon or to trust him. It is a terrible misfortuné.
THE GREAT WAR
The book begins in
1914 and has into the hot some curious glimpses tempers of those times. The Con- servative party is fond of professing its patriotism, yet it was possible for a man like Chamberlain in th first month of the war to rate Mr. Church- ill and Mr. Lloyd George in the most offensive terms because the Liberal Government sought to get a political truce that would treat the Irish fairly. It is not a pleasant episode. Nor, as we know from so many other memoirs,
The Government showed only iner- was the jockeying of offices in the first and second Coalitions. Chamberlain tia. "Have we, in fact, a policy, and went into the first as Secretary for is the Cabinet behind it, and do our India The Conservatives were ex-representatives abroad know what it tremely touchy. In June, 1916, when is, if it indeed exists?". Austen saved Kitchener was drowned and was fol- the Government, with some misgivings, lowed at the War Office by Mr. Lloyd in 1935 when he decided not to vote George, Asquith asked Austen to take against it on the Hoare-Laval.blunder, the Ministry of Munitions. He took the and he was contemptuous when Mr. offer as something like an insult, since Baldwin asked him then to join the "whatever credit was to be secured Government as "Minister of State" at the Ministry of Munitions had been without a department but with the reaped by Lloyd George" and any dis- special task of giving advice on foreign credit was to be left to a Unionist. He
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