Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's Minister to Switzerland, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, on vacation, hurried to Berlin for a conference, then back to Berne to make loud protests. Swiss Vice President & Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta had already sent an official letter of regret to Berlin, and the Swiss seemed cool to impassioned demands by Reichsführer Hitler's own newsorgan for the death sentence for the assassin. Maximum Swiss sentence for political murders is 15 years in jail. The canton of Grisons, where the crime was committed, long ago abolished the death penalty...
...Certainly the procedure should be maintained in cases of treason!" urged the ist Baron Rankeillour, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in 1924-29. But such objections and proposals last week went unheeded. By a vote of 45-to-24 the few peers in the House upheld Lord Sankey, and the Government was thus enabled to prepare a bill under which an arrested peer will face ordinary trial in Britain's ordinary courts...
Again last week new King Edward emphasized his pro-German leanings. At a great reception in Buckingham Palace to representatives of all nations, His Majesty kept the line of notables moving briskly past his receiving dais until German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath's turn came. Then the remainder of the long line waited while King and Baron had a conversation of some minutes in fluent German. After the whole line had finally passed into the next room, His Majesty joined Baron von Neurath for a much longer conversation. The German Press was exuberant at this portent, while...
...hostile acts" by Britain. This abstruse question was the subject of a 1,000-word memorandum by Premier Mussolini to the League last week, and Captain Eden was understood to be preparing a reply of equal length. Across the Council's green table he and Fascist Chief Delegate Baron Aloisi were mutually affable and smiling. Over Mr. Eden's vehement protest, M. Alexis Leger of France secured adoption of a proviso that further decisions by the League Sanctions Committee of Eighteen are not in themselves operative but "subject to the political decision of the governments." For the first...
...funeral procession which wound slowly this week from Westminster Hall to Paddington Station by grey & graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to whom was assigned as Lord-in-Waiting moose-tall Lord Howard of Penrith, onetime British Ambassador in Washington. For Adolf Hitler walked owl-solemn Baron Constantin von Neurath, who is not a Nazi. For Benito Mussolini stepped spruce Crown Prince Umberto. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria had to make his legs twinkle to keep up with the long strides of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf. For Joseph Stalin walked Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. Only unexpected absentee...