Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question in London as the week opened: Have Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden quarreled fundamentally about the foreign policy to be pursued by His Majesty's Government...
...Adolf Hitler who brought the long latent Chamberlain-Eden quarrel to a crisis. The action of the Fuhrer fortnight ago, after cracking down on German Army leaders, of appointing as his Foreign Secretary dynamic, scheming, adventurous Joachim von Ribbentrop, was taken by the English as a storm signal for Europe, especially since last week Ribbentrop was closeted with the Dictator in his mountain retreat. With what policies should His Majesty's Government seek to steer majestically through the storm? It came to Mr. Eden's ears that Mr. Chamberlain, in commenting to other members of the Cabinet upon...
...word about the trial to anyone outside the court. Meanwhile, the whole German press obediently printed not a line in which the German people could read anything about the trial or even that it was taking place. After the first few days, Berlin representatives of the comparatively privileged foreign press had extreme difficulty gleaning what was going on in court. Secret police swarmed in the corridors, ostentatiously eavesdropped whenever a correspondent was seen in conversation with anyone, even another correspondent...
Austrians became worried to the point of panic last week, when they suddenly read in their papers that Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg had not only slipped out of Austria without warning but was actually conferring in Bavaria with Adolf Hitler and new German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at the mountain snuggery of the Fuhrer...
...many a foreign bride has discovered after marrying a Frenchman, the clannishness of French males amounts to an open conspiracy against French females, and last week the male editors of Paris papers cooperated "loyally" with their male readers. It was almost impossible to find a full, printed account of the new law from which a wife could learn her rights, and many French papers omitted the story altogether...