Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what was this high-sounding talk to lead to? Just vague expressions of good will, a meaningless passing of the peace pipe? The conference was not 48 hours old before it became specific as well as pacific...
...long talk with 77-year-old Marshal Enrico Caviglia, one of the few Italian heroes of World War I. Marshal Caviglia had recently inspected the fortifications on the Italo-French frontier and it was presumed that he and Il Duce did not discuss the weather. After this meeting all good Italians still waited anxiously for Mussolini to say something very definite about which way Italy would jump, as they had waited for three weeks since war began...
With bad taste and good propaganda, an uninvited guest crashed Panama City last week where a party for representatives of the 21 American countries was gathering. The party folks were all Americans, all Lima conferees, all concerned with keeping the American hemisphere out of war. The crasher was a belligerent, a German, an official-Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister accredited to all Central American countries-and he brought with him a staff of assistants whose names and number were a guarded secret. Throughout South America, German propaganda agencies simultaneously charged that the parley was merely a device by which...
...chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman was New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, colorful Latin and good American, who called Pan America "a democracy of democracies," said it had no "big brother" and would accept "no ersatz for God Almighty...
...acquainted himself with U. S. naval strategy and Franklin Roosevelt (when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy). A remarkably huge Japanese-six feet tall and nearly 200 pounds-he lost an eye fighting in Shanghai. In public gatherings he alternately dozes and rolls with silent laughter. His good nature will be hard for U. S. diplomats to resist, but in case Japan has to do the resisting, he is a Navy man: smile for smile, fleet for fleet...