Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens of almost every European state experienced last week distinct repercussions from the murder of Soviet Minister to Poland Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov at Warsaw (TIME, June...
...need to be cautious about putting up career men, simply because they are career men . . . against the able negotiators in first authority now practically conducting the diplomatic negotiations of European countries. ... I do not have individuals in mind. But . . . any custom of appointments and promotions involving career men must never dull the sharp discretion which the appointing power should employ in selecting our best men for our most important diplomatic work...
Significance. "Ever since the War, they [European businessmen] have earnestly and wistfully studied . . . American business methods," wrote a New York Times editor last week. "They may now see representatives of that interesting class in the mass. ... It will be an education and a surprise for the Continentals to learn of the extraordinary degree to which we have carried the combination of business with pleasure, or at least business with luncheon." German businessmen have asked Rotarian President Sapp to remain in Europe for a time to get German rotary clubs well organized...
...American Jews are complacent and well-fed. And in all general Jewish questions they imagine that they need nothing at all, that their role in Jewish life is only to give, to provide for the poor east-European Jews, who depend on their aid. A good deal of the blame for this state of things must be placed at the door of our envoys from eastern Europe, who have made a habit of going to America to collect money...
...Dodd proposes the inferiority complex as an answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...