Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague, Herr Hitler turned his back on his old "Blood and Soil" act and began talking about war ending with "only losers"; about "millions of men uselessly sent to death and milliards of riches destroyed." He even made a short bow to free trade and the sanctity of the borders of minor nations. It was as though, after six years, he realized...
...reaction to Hitler's speech. Said J. Stalin's Izvestia this week: "One may respect or hate Hitlerism, just as any other system of political views. This is a matter of taste. But to undertake war for 'the annihilation of Hitlerism' means to commit an act of criminal folly in politics...
Meanwhile U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. called in Paris upon new expatriate Polish President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, this act confirming diplomatic recognition, which was also granted by France, Great Britain, Turkey, Sweden, Argentina, Mexico, the Vatican. Turks in Paris proudly recalled that during previous partitions of Poland, when the country appeared defunct for generations at a time, it was customary at the Sultan's Court for the Turkish majordomo, after announcing the names of all guests who had arrived, to shout "and unfortunately the Polish Ambassador is unavoidably absent...
Short, baldish, kindly Bishop Sheil last week was sworn, by a judge, as a corporation sole-a one-man holding company authorized, by act of the Illinois Legislature, to run Chicago's Catholic affairs. Appointed interim head of the archdiocese by its board of consultors, the bishop may serve six months or more, for the Vatican takes its time about filling important posts. Chicago-born, an able pitcher 33 years ago at St. Viator's College, dynamic Bishop Sheil became a diocesan official 15 years ago, has been a bishop for ten. His fame is more than local...
...Railroad Brotherhoods said their threatened strike would be called off in event of war. Nicholas Murray Butler's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had for several months been whooping up war spirit. Creel's hand was seen, however, in the speedy passage of the Espionage Act of June 15, the Sedition Act...