On the occasion of the signature of the Locarno Treaties the knighthood of the Garter has been conferred on Mr. Austen Chamberlaic. Mrs. Chamberlain has been made Dame of the Grand Cross of the British Empire—Reuter.
***One of the greatest honours] that the Sovereign can bestow is the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Mr. Chamberlain is at present the only Commoner to wear the Garter Blue, the other Knights being the King, members of the Royal famil foreign Princes and members of the British nobility.
Son of the distinguished Joseph] Chamberlain, Mr. Austen Chamber-ain, who has represented Birmingham West in the Conservative interest since 1914, was appointed to his first ministerial post in 1895, when he became a Civil Lord of the Admiralty. Ho was—Financial! Secretary to the Treasury from 1900 to 1902; Postmaster-General! from 1902 to 1908, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1903 to 1905 Yor two years during the war, when Mr. Lloyd George was Premier, he served as Secretary of State for India, resigning in 1917. Thereafter he became a member of the War Cabinet. In the post-war Coalition Cabinet he again served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hi was Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons from 1941 to 1922, and on the return of Conservative Ministry under Mr. Stanley Baldwin last year was)" made Minister of Foreign Affairs Dee. 1.
A large crowd, flanked by a bat tery of photographers, gathered Downing Street to witness the rival of the delegates to sign, in the olden reception room of the Foreign Office, the Treaty of Mutual Guarantee, which is the official title of the Locarno Pact.
There was a rush when the Germans arrived and some raising of hats but no other demonstration.
The diplomatic representatives of the signatory Powers, the British! Ambassadors at Paris, Berlin andi Brussels, members of the Cabinet
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