Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week-end in the country. A faction led by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was said to feel that Dictator Hitler could not be stopped this side of Turkey, that Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece must inevitably be his if he wanted them. But Lord Halifax stood up to declare that neither Poland, Rumania, Turkey nor Greece should be allowed to fall in German hands. Meantime, the Cabinet considered plans for a Stop Hitler conference of anti-dictator countries...
...empire expanded week to within about 75 miles of the rich oil fields and wheat lands of the Kingdom of Rumania. Scarcely had the Aggrandizer got to Vienna on his swing around the new empire before the Rumanian Minister in London, Viorel Teleas, reported to Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax that Germany had served Rumania an "economic ultimatum." Its gist: trade all Rumanian oil and wheat for German manufactured goods or expect the consequences...
...muckraking, anti-aristocratic, jingoistic sheet. In 1854 it helped to push the country into the Crimean War, then ribbed the Government for all its blunders and published such thorough accounts of British strategy that the Russians were tipped off on it in advance. The Foreign Minister, Lord Clarendon, complained...
...Atrocious," gasped Queen Victoria of The Times. "Wicked," clucked the Prince Consort. "Insolent," sniffed Mr. Gladstone. Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Clarendon: ". . . If England is ever to be England again, this vile tyranny of The Times must...
...Probably not," was his answer to a query regarding the possibility of a European war in the near future, but he likened himself to Lord Castleross, 280-pound English columnist, who asserted, 'I'm only a poor columnist but I'm the only one who doesn't know exactly what's going on in the minds of Hitler and Mussolini...