Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to me. I never received a penny from Fokker for myself. I never acted for Fokker in any such sales. The contract, which subsequently was canceled, had provided specifically that I should not be requested by Fokker or any of his representatives to contact any representative of a European government or of the United States government...
Except for France, the European powers are not at all perturbed by the Belgium declaration. London feels that this neutrality policy will enable France to concentrate on the Rhine, while Belgium can henceforth take care of her own frontier alone. For the future peace of Europe this move is a wise one, since European stability can never be achieved when eight or ten countries have "ganged up" upon one or two others in a "collective security" system...
...life Hunt Diederich has shared his father's passion for horses. Horse swapping expeditions in his early child hood carried him from one European country to another, gave him much variegated schooling...
...policy; but he does not reverse himself on fundamental questions of executive power or economic policy. Once Mr. Lippmann favored the League of Nations-- that was long ago, in the hopeful twenties. Now he swallows without regret the Senate's rejection of the World Court, and sees withdrawal from European entanglements as the sound American policy for the present. His articles on international affairs are small in bulk, considering the series of erlscs that began in Europe in March, 1933. They, like the other places, show him to be not always a good prophet, but usually a sound observer...
Died, Admiral William Sowden Sims, 77, U.S.N. retired, Wartime Commander of the U. S. Fleet in European waters; after a heart attack; in Boston. As a Naval observer in China and St. Petersburg, he became so vociferous a critic of the efficiency of the U. S. Navy that in 1908 his friend Roosevelt I had to save him from court martial. During the War he commanded 373 ships, 81,000 men. Said he two years ago: "The sea is fine when viewed from shore . . . but I never liked going...