Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet realizes that in deciding on a blockade it is giving Hitler and Mussolini an excuse for reprisals. ... If they seek to delay control, the British Navy will be given orders to act swiftly and effectively." Soon the British Empire proceeded to unleash the British Navy again-as it was unleashed last year against Benito Mussolini - this time perhaps to blockade Spain entirely by sea as suggested by the Sunday Referee. Since the House of Commons is about to reconvene this was a good line for His Majesty's Government to take, in preparation for expected criticism from Labor...
...London circles close to the Prime Minister this week it was said that Squire Baldwin was asking the Radical French Cabinet for further proof of their accusations about Germans in Morocco before his own Conservative British Cabinet finally made up their minds...
...Nazi newsorgans roared that "the Red agents of Moscow" must not be permitted to remain in Spain, and raised the issue of the Bank of Spain's great gold hoard, now seized and in large measure cached abroad in bank accounts of members of Spain's Red Cabinet. Berlin and Rome thought something should be done about that. Neutral diplomats thought Der Führer and Il Duce, by the conditions they laid down, were simply throwing the whole issue of intervention in Spain back into the hands of London's luckless 27-nation Non-intervention Committee...
...total of 180 correspondents of various nationalities had sought places in the Great Church. Said Queen Wilhelmina reputedly to the Cabinet Minister responsible, "Do you not think four would be enough?" It was explained to Her Majesty that times are changing, and ultimately 108 correspondents were established in a press box, with the result that the ceremony was covered well and favorably in newsorgans throughout the world, except in Germany...
...Castle, bore the delay without appearing bored, but the Duke of Kent, who some years ago was mooted as a bridegroom for Crown Princess Juliana (she was later a bridesmaid at his wedding), fidgeted and fumed with the "shyness" notable in all sons of King George V. A Dutch Cabinet Minister passed around chocolates, and these the Dutch and German guests beamishly consumed. The British would not eat in a Dutch church, as "it isn't done in England," and the shyness of Kent became each moment more excruciating...