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… splendid isolation
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Joseph Chamberlain, 1836-1914, British MP (Liberal), Colonial Secretary, Mayor of Birmingham, Speech, January 21, 1896
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Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman who was first a radical Liberal, then, after opposing home rule for Ireland, a Liberal Unionist, and eventually served as a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives. He split both major British parties in the course of his career. He was father, by different marriages, of Austen Chamberlain and of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.