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- 1863-1937. British Conservative politician,
- elder son of Joseph Chamberlain; as foreign
- secretary 1924-29 he negotiated the Pact of
- Locarno, for which he won the Nobel Peace
- Prize 1925, and signed the Kellogg-Briand
- pact to outlaw war 1928. He was elected to
- Parliament 1892 as a Liberal-Unionist, and
- after holding several minor posts was
- chancellor of the Exchequer 1903-06. During
- World War I he was secretary of state for
- India 1915-17 and member of the war cabinet
- 1918. He was chancellor of the Exchequer
- 1919-21 and Lord Privy Seal 1921-22, but
- failed to secure the leadership of the party
- 1922, as many Conservatives resented the part
- he had taken in the Irish settlement of 1921.
- He was foreign secretary in the Baldwin
- government 1924-29, and negotiated and signed
- the Locarno Pact 1925 to fix the boundaries
- of Germany, and the Kellogg-Briand pact 1928
- to ban war and provide for peaceful
- settlement of disputes.
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