Word: cablegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince Bismarck received Chancellor Hitler's "observations" on this proposed convention last week in a long code cablegram from the Wilhelmstrasse. Calling his limousine he sped to Whitehall, marched into the office of tall, frigid British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and told him that Germany cannot wait until 1938 before beginning to achieve armament equality with France. At the very least, in Chancellor Hitler's view, the Fatherland should at once be allowed to have "samples" of all armaments now denied her by the Treaty of Versailles; big guns, tanks, battle planes. Finally, even if a four...
President Roosevelt, 3,665 mi. from London, spoke to the Conference through U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull who read an optimistic White House cablegram of thanks to James Ramsay MacDonald as President of the Conference...
...This cablegram Chief U. S. Delegate Hull backed with a final plea to the Conference for lower tariffs-despite reports in London papers that the U. S. Administration would shortly raise several schedules. As chairman of the Conference Monetary Commission-which deadlocked on stabilization and wrecked the Conference (TIME, June 26 et seq.)- Vice-Chief U. S. Delegate James M. Cox praised the Conference's 500 experts, remarking that "100 of them have been working together at various conferences for ten years." In his final speech Mr. Cox, unable to praise his Monetary Commission, praised the Bank for Interna...
When the President replied he fired first a pistol, then a broadside. His pistol shot was to reject the Golders: proposal for steadying the dollar with respect to gold. His broadside came two days later in a cablegram which Secretary of State Cordell Hull, vainly attempting to hide his own amazement, read to the hushed, expectant Delegates...
...following statement was given exclusively to the CRIMSON yesterday by James Bryant Conant '14, in response to a cablegram announcing the confirmation of his election as president of the University by the Board of Overseers...