Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left room for no ambiguity or misunderstanding between him and his official hosts. Few have shown in return the same interest in the Soviet Union. First arriving in Moscow with a large entourage and a railroad car of frozen delicacies, Ambassador Davies immediately won the Soviet Union's friendship by his elaborate entertainments for Soviet officials, by two long trips and many minor ones through the interior. Once he dined all Russia's important Commissars and their wives, ending the night's festivities with a showing of the cinema Naughty Marietta. Another time he wound...
...newspapermen whom he called to his office, Premier Daladier explained that "France is occupied with looking everywhere and with everybody for a settlement, which, however, demands loyalty, reciprocity and parallel action.'' Thus indirectly he tossed on Signer Mussolini the blame for the impasse of the friendship talks. "However." continued the Premier, "France will persist in proving her close union, her calm self-possession. She can do it because she is strong. Her will for peace is her first guarantee, her strength is her supreme guarantee. No matter what the circumstances, France is fully capable of assuring the inviolability...
Says Sullivan: "From all the passions which give direction to most men's lives, sexual love, paternity, friendship, citizenship, religious aspirations, the desire for fame, the desire to benefit humanity, Newton seems to have been free. From the point of view of most men his life, in spite of its prodigious achievements, would seem pointless. . . . His life was one long meditation, but his interest in the subject of his meditations was exhausted in the act of understanding...
...Irish treaty ports of Cobh (Queenstown), Lough S willy and Bere Haven, who loudly wondered if Prime Minister de Valera was really a friend of England. But Negotiator Chamberlain called his Anglo-Irish bill an "act of faith," admitted he had granted generous terms to Eire to gain her friendship. In Eire it was announced that Neville Chamberlain will spend a fishing holiday this summer in Galway-the first visit of a British Prime Minister to Ireland since...
...consider inviolable for all time the frontiers of the Alps, erected between us by nature. I am certain that for Rome, as well as for Germany, there will result a future that is glorious and prosperous. Duce. just as you and your people have remained true to your friendship in the decisive days, so I, too, and my people are ready to manifest the same friendship to Italy in difficult times. Duce. I raise my glass and drink to your health, to the happiness and greatness of the Italian people and to our immutable friendship...