Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominally be-monocled German Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath, decorative socialite, was Chief Delegate. But at his side stalked long-necked, domineering Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Governor of the Reichsbank. To make things more exciting before he left Berlin Dr. Schacht recommended and Chancellor Hitler decreed last week a blanket and indefinite moratorium blocking payment of service charges on practically all German foreign obligations except her already frozen still-haltung credits. This move sent Germany dramatically to London hat in hand, served notice that unless she receives favors of some sort from the Conference her total borrowings are as good...
...Died, Baron Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss Wester Wemyss, 69, onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...
That afternoon he had had a secret conference with Old Paul von Hindenburg (still head of the German State, still able, technically, to demand the resignation of Chancellor Hitler) to which not Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath but Nazi Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick was the third party. Now he had to write a speech that was not for Germany alone, but for the entire world to hear. Hours passed, the door remained locked. At 4 a. m. the tired secretary emerged to say that the first draft had been completed...
...most important reaction came from Britain's Minister of War, round-faced Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. As firm a Tory as Winston Churchill, whom he slightly resembles, Lord Hailsham, former Lord Chancellor of Britain, said...
...arguments and foreign exchange battles the British Cabinet was suddenly summoned to an emergency meeting in Downing Street last week. Reporters rushed over with their coattails flying. Was the National Government in danger? It was not. but the cause of the meeting was almost as vital. Hugh Montague Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton. had just published a report after 18 months in office as Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. Over four years ago the British public was startled to learn that the placid British bobby-historically the calmest of constables-was not immune to bribery and graft. There were nasty disclosures...