Word: covenanter
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The Locarno Treaty meant peace as far as western Europe was concerned, and Hitler cannot easily disguise the fact that it was national honor and no other reason that prompted its rupture two weeks ago. Even those who watched with sympathy while he tore the Versailles pact limb from limb...
"I have every confidence in the ultimate issue of the conversations which have begun. Indeed, I know how great a place idealism and scruple occupy in the British temperament. In the present circumstances, which are serious for the future of peace, France upholds that same notion of collective security by...
¶ Angrily debated a motion recommending that the Covenant of the League of Nations be so revised that Sanctions can never again be applied nor breach of a frontier be cited by the League as grounds for punishing the treaty-breaker.
Finally the shocking, aristocratic candor of Their Lordships became so excessive that popular Lord Cecil, a great maker of addresses at middle-class League of Nations meetings, intervened to dampen the shocks. "As long as we remain members of the League and signatories of its Covenant," Lord Cecil reminded Their...
The grand total is $35,000,000 spent during the past seven months for "special measures" undertaken by Viscount Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper and Air Secretary Viscount Swinton solely because of "Eden Diplomacy." All three Ministers rose in the House to ask still...