Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angry and humiliated, Marshal Petain suddenly withdrew to Paris, threatened to resign. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet finally persuaded him to return to Burgos, instructed him to get tough and beat down El Caudillo's demands...
...Kerr Clark Kerr chatted with Britain's Ambassador to Japan Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, presumably about trying to get Japan and China to stop fighting. Next day Sir Archibald went to China's capital, Sir Robert to Japan's. In Tokyo, Sir Robert was greeted by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita with great politeness and greater vagueness. But in Chungking, as he stepped from the plane which had taken him there, Sir Archibald was handed a copy of an important declaration by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek: "Our prolonged resistance, our policy of gaining time by sacrificing space and winning...
...week, in the face of this development, Adolf Hitler decided it was high time to send to Turkey a man skilled in dealing with just such a situation. He picked for the job of Reich Ambassador to Ankara Franz von Papen, a diplomatic smoothie, an international intriguer whom British Foreign Office wits call the "German specialist for political dirty work...
...Simultaneously U. S. citizens, previously preoccupied by three long years of Depression, were compelled to take a new interest in foreign news. Strange news it was at first, confused, murky, seething, a sequence of brutal events, of medieval vengeance wreaked with modern weapons, news of German book-burnings, of anti-Semitic outbreaks, of a bloody purge, news of statesmen who seemed only masters of vituperation and violence. What could be expected from a country whose leaders believed, in Propaganda Minister Goebbels' words, that their mission was "to unchain volcanic passions, to cause outbreaks of fury, to set masses...
...historical precedent for the tragedy toward which they were moving, and even the statesmen who tried to avert it had no conception of its terrible scope. On the evening of Aug. 3, 1914, when Great Britain pondered war, Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of the Foreign Office, watching the lamps being lit in the summer dusk, and said: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." To those who expect another war, his phrase seems optimistic ; many are in a mood to say: "They will never...