Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showing he intends to himself discharge the functions of Foreign Secretary, so far as the House of Commons is concerned, the Prime Minister last week made permanent his tentative appointment of Viscount Halifax as Foreign Secretary. As a peer, Halifax cannot enter the Commons, but Labor peers taunted Halifax in the House of Lords: "You are afraid of Italy." Asserting that Britain would win any war "as usual" he retorted: "I am not afraid of Italy or any other country...
...their noses. But while they were doing so. he got them to swallow the general principle of British-German-French-Italian negotiation for a Four-Power Pact, envisioned by the British Prime Minister . The swallowing occurred at a session of the Chamber of Deputies which upheld Premier Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...
...timely were the remarks by U. S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt at a Washington's Birthday celebration in Paris last week that cables hummed. Excited French newsorgans reported that the U. S. had just come out firmly for opposition to foreign entanglements. Next day Ambassador Bullitt explained, and the excitement died down. He had merely read from Washington's Farewell Address, delivered...
...Menzhinsky in 1934-all of whom were always understood to have died natural deaths. The 21 defendants were also charged with having worked for Exile Trotsky right up to the time of their arrests. They were accused of attempting to deliver various parts of the Soviet Union to foreign states. In this no Russian helped them, said the indictment, for they relied "exclusively upon the armed forces of foreign aggressors to accomplish their...
...hours after handsome Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Glasgow haberdashers marked down the Eden-style black Homburg from ?1 to four shillings. In London's West End, however, it still held its own. "It has too much character," said one Mayfair hatter, "to be blown off by a political breeze...