Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.GREAT BRITAIN: Lady of Locarno
Last week death came to Nobel Prize Winner Sir Austen Chamberlain's widow," the Lady of Locarno." Ivy Muriel, Lady Chamberlain, may be remembered longest because one day in Switzerland she gave what cables called "the world's most im portant picnic." This was at Locarno in 1925. Those tireless peace men, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain, were trying to per suade the Republic of Germany to enter the League of Nations and make a final peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper,...
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