In the Baldwin government of 1924 to 1929, Chamberlain was secretary of state for foreign affairs. During these years he was also writing with a graceful pen. His top hat, his eyeglass, his exquisite courtesy and his rotund oratory marked him out from his colleagues.”These were the words of one backbencher about Austen Chamberlain, a Conservative statesman and former Foreign Secretary, in his later years. France regarded Germany as a potential enemy. His career was overshadowed firstly by the character of his father, Joseph Chamberlain, a pioneering Lord Mayor of Birmingham and prominent tariff reformer, and later by the ‘peace in our time’ that his half-brother Neville, Prime Minister between 1937 and 1940, tried to ensure.Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary in Stanley Baldwin’s Conservative government from 1924 – 1929, is best remembered as the author of the Locarno Pact of 1925. Austen Chamberlain shared the Peace Prize for 1925 with the American Charles Dawes. Austen Chamberlain shared the Peace Prize for 1925 with the American Charles Dawes. His father was another important politician, Joseph Chamberlain, and his half-brother (they had a different mother) was Neville Chamberlain… Sir Austen Chamberlain Biographical S ir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (October 16, 1863-March 17, 1937) was the eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain, the great British statesman known as the «Empire-builder» he was a half-brother of Neville Chamberlain, prime minister from 1937 to 1940. The official biography by Sir Woodward, David R, "Field Marshal Sir William Robertson", Westport Connecticut & London: Praeger, 1998, Woodward, David R, "Field Marshal Sir William Robertson", Westport Connecticut & London: Praeger, 1998,
For example, he requested that the table for the Locarno conference should place no country above any other. Much of his father's fortune had been lost in a failed attempt by his younger brother Neville to grow His personal and political papers are housed in the Cadbury Research Library at the David Dutton comments that early assessments of Chamberlain's career compared him unfavourably with his father, who overshadowed his early career, and his brother, who overshadowed his later decades. Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (16 October 1863 – 17 March 1937) was a British politician.He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.

After the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Europe was still very unsettled.

They received it in 1926, together with the Laureates for that year, the Frenchman Aristide Briand and the German Gustav Stresemann. published in the book series Tasked with a mission to manage Alfred Nobel's fortune and has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions of Nobel's will.For more than a century, these academic institutions have worked independently to select Nobel Laureates in each prize category.Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize. Upon Bonar Law’s retirement from the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1921, Chamberlain succeeded him for eighteen months. Tension between the two countries rose.

He succeeded in persuading Long to withdraw with him in favour of Law, who was subsequently chosen by unanimous vote as a compromise candidate. Chamberlain died at the age of 73 in his London home, 24 Egerton Terrace, on 16 March 1937. His relationship with the Germans was never good, despite his respect for Gustav Stresemann, the German Foreign Minister.

In a difficult period in international relations, Chamberlain faced not only a split in the Despite the importance to history of other pressing issues, his reputation chiefly rests on his part in the negotiations over what came to be known as the Chamberlain's understanding was that if Franco-German relations improved, France would gradually abandon the Chamberlain also secured Britain's accession to the Following his less-satisfactory engagement in issues in the Far East and Egypt, and the resignation of Baldwin's government after the election of 1929, Chamberlain resigned his position as Foreign Secretary and went into retirement.
The prize was accepted … His seniority and the general dislike of Curzon, his counterpart in the The Lloyd George coalition was beginning to falter, following numerous scandals and the unsuccessful conclusion of the It was an unfortunate change of allegiance for Chamberlain, for by late 1921, the Conservative backbenchers were growing more and more restless for an end to the coalition and a return to single-party (Conservative) government. However, many people regarded it as the ‘beginning of the great peace’.

In the first period he was concerned primarily with domestic questions; in the second, with international questions.

He came into politics when he headed the presidential election campaign of the Republican candidate William McKinley in 1896.

His natural courtesy helped him and he showed great attention to details. However, the treaty was disliked by the Americans and Germans who regarded it as a semi-military agreement.In advocating Locarno, Chamberlain was not primarily concerned with German sensitivities, but with stability in western Europe.

The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of … In 1924, the committee presented the Dawes Plan. Germany was granted American loans enabling it to pay indemnity. Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary in Stanley Baldwin’s Conservative government from 1924 – 1929, is best remembered as the author of the Locarno Pact of 1925.