Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a stay in Czechoslovakia, where he talked with "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," President Eduard Benes, Premier Milan Hodza and Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta, Mr. Hoover had moved on to Berlin. At his hotel, sharp-eyed Gestapo (secret police) agents pounced upon a suspicious-looking package addressed to Mr. Hoover. They ripped it open, to their surprise found only a picture of the late Tsarina Alexandra of Russia sent by an admiring White Russian...
...Japanese installed at Nanking last week yet another Chinese Government, composed of the merest puppets. Chinese whose names mean almost as little to the Chinese people as Joe Zilch. This outfit, as the Japanese put it, will be "under the umbrella" of Nanking. The business community in Shanghai, both foreign and Chinese, exhibited no sympathy but much relief that there is now a Nanking Government which will get paralyzed currency exchanges going again. Last week the currency situation was such a desperate muddle that a few days after the native dollar was quoted...
Since Lord Perth, the British Ambassador in Rome, was conferring almost daily last week on the most amicable terms with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, II Duce's son-in-law, and since at Moscow the Stalin regime chose last week not to make counter threats which might have given Italy and Germany pause, the dominant factor in Spain's civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe...
...Prime Minister said that he would attempt to define the attitude of His Majesty's Government. "I deliberately use the word 'attitude' rather than policy," he weightily continued, "because I cannot imagine that any event would change the fundamental basis of British foreign policy, which is the maintenance and preservation of peace and the establishment of a sense of confidence that peace will in fact be maintained...
...Eden, one of the most socially-conscious aristocrats who have ever been British Foreign Secretary, once told the House, Mr. Chamberlain reminded his hearers, that "our armaments may be used in bringing help to the victim of aggression in any case where in our judgment it would be proper under the conditions of the [League] Covenant to do so." The Prime Minister, indicating that His Majesty's Government have not renounced that pledge, went on to quote the further explanation of it by Mr. Eden, who continued : "I use the word 'may' deliberately, since, in such...