"Austen Chamberlain did not seem to me to be a man of first-rate mind, but he obviously possessed high character and the sort of disinterested goodness and amateur methods that now and then have enabled British statesmen to play notable roles in negotiations with foreign diplomats, even when the latter have been armed with subtler minds and the traditional techniques."
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Academics from EnglandMembers of the Parliament of the United KingdomUnitariansPeople from BirminghamNobel Peace Prize laureates
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Vincent Massey, What's Past is Prologue (1963), p. 113
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Austen Chamberlain
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (16 October 1863 – 17 March 1937) was a British statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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