Word: madmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russo-Finnish negotiations at Moscow, and who can match most Soviet bigshots in proletarian experience. He once worked as a miner in the U. S. The Soviets were not so happy about Minister Tanner; the Soviet radio quickly called him one of the "madmen of Helsinki...
...upon the utter impossibility of their ever winning an election. Last week two big opposition party congresses -Labor in England (see p. 24) and Socialist in France-demonstrated that even in Europe's democracies, where oppositionists are not considered criminals, enemies of the State, traitors, wreckers, boors or madmen, opposition parties are having too much trouble holding together to think of taking power...
...cordon sanitaire which French President Raymond Poincaré had tried to weld around hated Red Russia. The Soviet Union was not even permitted a seat in the spectators' gallery at the Versailles Peace Conference. Many a country refused to recognize it. Red diplomats were shunned everywhere as irresponsible madmen. When Chicherin made his first appearance at an international conference-in Genoa in 1922-he astonished other diplomats by being a polished, cultured scholar...
...with France and Britain only lately awake to the perils of the hour, many a man-in-the-street would agree with Albania's exiled King Zog's estimate of European conditions as given to a United Press correspondent in Fiorina, Greece: "There are in Europe two madmen who are disturbing the entire world-Hitler and Mussolini. There are in Europe two damn fools who sleep-Chamberlain and Daladier...
...course of my life," Celine once confessed, "I spent so many years as a bard, a hero, an official, and a doormat in the service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum." Readers of Journey to the End of the Night, which at 40 turned Celine (real name: Louis Des-touches) from an obscure municipal doctor to the most sensational of contemporary writers, may have thought that savage autobiographical novel was enough to fill a whole insane asylum by itself. But the Journey had left untold the story of Celine...