Word: buts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vigorously last week Tardieu L'Américain lashed into the Deputies a proposal to hold three sessions every week day until the budget is voted. If they must talk, let it be morning, noon and night, until the bitter end. With much grumbling they assented. Then Tardieu did...
Mrs. Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, wife of the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, is English, forthright, tart-tongued. She has never met President Herbert Hoover nor Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. But at Geneva last spring she beheld the dapper gentleman they sent to tell the League of Nations and...
Battle Plane Prejudice. To the desk of Comrade Litvinov in the Kremlin came intelligence, last week, that a ship had just cleared from New York, bearing to the Chinese Government the second consignment of a $1,000,000 order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the...
Unfriendly Act? As was later admitted to Washington correspondents, the Stimson notes were drafted when their author did not know whether to believe conflicting reports that China and Russia were even then patching up their differences at a peace parley near Vladivostok. Other reports convinced Mr. Stimson that Soviet planes...
Ha, Ha, Ha! Comrade Litvinov's real reply to Statesman Stimson came not by note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had...