Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was well-known modern history, but not the sort of thing the Cabinet officers of one nation say about another. The reaction, as expected, was brief and bitter. Said a Foreign Office spokesman for Japan: "Regrettable." Said the semi-official German Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korrespondenz: "The German nation does not want lessons from any quarter on the subject of national freedom, self-determination and its best interests." Wrote Mussolini's spokesman, Virginio Gayda, in Giornale d'Italia: "We should like to believe his words were never uttered, but if they are authentic they constitute...
...Only Improve!" After thus citing calamity and their justification, the French Cabinet cut the value of the franc about 9% last week. In terms of the Roosevelt dollar of today the French franc in 1914 was worth 33?, now is worth just under...
Cheered by 100,000 gathered at El Campo de la Victoria outside Saragossa, the swart little President of Rightist Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, celebrated the first anniversary of his Cabinet last week by having a radio chat with the people of Leftist Spain. Cried Spain's Robert E. Lee, purporting to address Spain's Abraham Lincoln, the Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin...
...authoritative Tokyo quarters last week it was reported that the War Minister, having surveyed the China War in person, will recommend an immediate supreme Japanese effort to take Hankow, will probably carry the Japanese Cabinet with him into this bold of rash policy. General Sugiyama was said to be impressed with the historical concept "Hankow is the Military Heart of China," to have convinced himself that once this "heart" is in Japanese hands it will be impossible for the Chinese to keep up organized resistance. With the fall of Hankow, the Japanese would not merely have taken another "Chinese Capital...
After extensive travels in North China, the Japanese War Minister General Hajima Sugiyama returned to Tokyo last week and obviously it was time to review the war (see map), now about to enter a fresh, perhaps final phase. Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye admitted last week that his Cabinet has been split for months on the question of whether the Empire's best policy is merely to keep trying to hold and digest what Japan has gained or instead make supreme efforts to chase Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who lost his Capital Nanking four months ago, out of Hankow...